What does "sadness" mean?
Sadness: Seriousness; gravity; discretion. [Obs.] Her sadness and her benignity. Chaucer.
Additional senses
- 2.Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. Milton. See Grief.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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