tristesse
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From French tristesse
Noun [edit]
tristesse (uncountable)
- (literary) sadness
- 2007 January 14, Liesl Schillinger quoting Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, New York Times:
- “The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.”
- 2007 January 14, Liesl Schillinger quoting Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, New York Times:
French [edit]
Etymology [edit]
First attested in Old French as tristesce, tristece. From triste + -esse, modelled after Latin tristitia.
Pronunciation [edit]
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Noun [edit]
tristesse f (plural tristesses)
- sadness
- La tristesse durera
- the sadness will last
- La tristesse durera