Sad"ness, n.
1.
Heaviness; firmness.
[Obs.]
2.
Seriousness; gravity; discretion.
[Obs.]
Her sadness and her benignity.
Chaucer.
3.
Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.
Dim sadness did not spare
That time celestial visages.
Milton.
Syn. -- Sorrow; heaviness; dejection. See Grief.
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