1 [U,sing.] the feeling of being sad:
memories tinged with sadness * I felt a deep sadness. * It is with great sadness that we report the death of James Banks yesterday.
2 [C,usually pl.] something which makes you sad:
our joys and sadnesses
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sadness is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is sadness a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, sadness is tagged as noun.
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