Category: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.