sadness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
    unhappiness.
  2. noun the state of being sad
    sorrow; sorrowfulness.
    • she tired of his perpetual sadness
  3. noun the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
    gloominess; lugubriousness.

WordNet


Sad"ness noun
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913