sadness

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Etymology

sad +‎ -ness

Noun

sadness (countable and uncountable; plural sadnesses)

1. (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
2. (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.

   She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.

Synonyms

• (state of being sad): forlornness, melancholy
• (event causing sadness): misfortune, woe

Translations

state/emotion

Arabic: حزن (ar) (Huzun) m. Breton: tristidigezh (br) f. Catalan: tristesa (ca) f. Croatian: tuga (hr) f. Czech: smutek (cs) m. Esperanto: malĝojo (eo) French: tristesse (fr) f. Galician: tristeza (gl) f. German: Traurigkeit (de) f. Indonesian: kesedihan (id) Italian: tristezza (it) f. Kurdish: Sorani: خه‌فه‌ت (ku) (xefet) Latin: trīstitia (la) f. Lithuanian: liūdesys (lt)

Mandarin: 悲伤 (cmn) (bēishāng) Norwegian: sorg (no) m., melankoli (no) m. Old Provençal: tristicia Polish: smutek (pl) m. Portuguese: tristeza (pt) f. Romanian: tristețe (ro) f. Russian: печаль (ru) (pečál') f. Scottish Gaelic: bròn m., cianalas m., mulad m. Slovak: smutok m. Slovene: žalost (sl) Spanish: tristeza (es) f. Swahili: huzuni (sw) Turkish: üzgünlük (tr), üzüntü (tr)

event causing sadness

Swahili: huzuni (sw)

Turkish: üzüntü (tr)