sadness

Sad"ness, n. 1. Heaviness; firmness. [Obs.] 2. Seriousness; gravity; discretion. [Obs.] Her sadness and her benignity. Chaucer. 3. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. Milton. Syn. -- Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See Grief.

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