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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SAD'NESS, n.
1. Sorrowfulness; mournfulness; dejection of mind; as grief and sadness at the memory of sin.
2. A melancholy look; gloom of countenance.
Dim sadness did not spare Celestial visages.
3. Seriousness; sedate gravity. Let every thing in a mournful subject have an air of sadness.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being [syn: sadness, unhappiness] [ant: happiness]
2: the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness" [syn: sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness]
3: the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness [syn: gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness]

Merriam Webster's

noun see sad

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Sorrow, despondency, sorrowfulness, mournfulness, melancholy, depression, dejection. 2. Gloominess, mournfulness, heaviness, grief, sorrow, dolefulness. 3. Seriousness, sedateness, gravity.

Moby Thesaurus

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