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 m (ḥuzn)
• Armenian: տխրություն (txrutʿyun)
• Asturian: tristura f
• Azeri: kədər
• Belarusian: печа́ль f (pječálʹ), сму́так m (smútak)
• Berber:

  Tashelhit: taguḍi f

• Breton: tristidigezh f
• Bulgarian: скръб (bg) f (skrǎb), печал (bg) f (pečál)
• Catalan: tristesa f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 悲傷 (zh), 悲伤 (zh) (bēishāng), 悲哀 (zh) (bēi'āi)

• Czech: smutek (cs) m
• Danish: sorg (da) c
• Dutch: verdriet (nl) n
• Esperanto: malĝojo
• Estonian: kurbus
• Finnish: surullisuus
• French: tristesse (fr) f
• Galician: tristeza f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Traurigkeit (de) f
• Greek: λύπη (el) f (lýpi)
• Hebrew: עצב (he) m ('étsev)
• Hindi: दुःख m (duḥkh), ग़म m (ġam), उदासी f (udāsī)
• Hungarian: szomorúság (hu)
• Icelandic: sorg (is) f
• Ido: chagreno (io)
• Indonesian: kesedihan (id)
• Italian: tristezza (it) f
• Japanese: 悲しみ (かなしみ, kanashimi)
• Kazakh: мұң (muñ), шер (şer), уайым (wayım)

• Khmer: សេចក្ដីព្រួយ (səckdəy pruəy)
• Korean: 슬픔 (ko) (seulpeum)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: خه‌فه‌ت (ku) (xefet)

• Lao: ຄວາມໂສກເສົ້າ (lo) (khwām sōk sao)
• Latin: trīstitia f
• Latvian: skumjas m
• Lithuanian: liūdesys (lt)
• Macedonian: та́га f (tága)
• Maori: hinapouri
• Norwegian: sorg (no) m, melankoli m
• Old Provençal: tristicia
• Persian: غمگینی (fa) (ğamgini)
• Polish: smutek (pl) m
• Portuguese: tristeza (pt) f
• Romanian: tristețe (ro) f
• Russian: печа́ль (ru) f (pečálʹ), грусть (ru) f (grustʹ), уны́ние (ru) n (unýnije), тоска́ (ru) f (toská)
• Scottish Gaelic: bròn m, cianalas m, mulad m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: туга f, жалост f

  Roman: tuga f, žalost (sh) f

• Slovak: smútok m
• Slovene: žalost (sl) f
• Spanish: tristeza (es) f
• Swahili: huzuni (sw)
• Swedish: sorg (sv) c
• Thai: ความเศร้า (kwaam sâo), ความทุกข์ (kwaam túk)
• Turkish: üzgünlük (tr), üzüntü (tr)
• Ukrainian: печа́ль f (pečálʹ), сму́ток m (smútok)
• Vietnamese: buồn (vi), sự buồn rầu (vi)

event causing sadness

• Finnish: suru (fi)
• Swahili: huzuni (sw)

• Turkish: üzüntü (tr)