SORROWFULNESS Synonyms: 105 Similar and Opposite Words

sorrowfulness

noun

as in sadness

a state or spell of low spirits with a sorrowfulness that can only be described as heart-wrenching, she read the elegy

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Noun

But Adams often located a layer of melancholy beneath her characters’ sunny surfaces, and those early performances had a depth that now makes her versatility seem obvious.

Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Nearly all of them from his late grandmother, who occasionally spoke with melancholy and pride about her older son, Jack.

Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024

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