sadness (n.)
- agony
- anguish
- bale
- bitterness
- bleakness
- blues
- cheapness
- cheerlessness
- crushing
- darkness
- dejectedness
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despicableness
- despondency
- dinge
- discomfort
- disconsolateness
- dispiritedness
- distress
- distressfulness
- doldrums
- dolor
- downheartedness
- downs
- dreariness
- dumps
- duskiness
- extremity
- forlornness
- funk
- gaudiness
- gloom
- gloominess
- graveness
- grief
- heartache
- heavyheartedness
- hopelessness
- infelicity
- joylessness
- lamentation
- listlessness
- meanness
- megrims
- melancholia
- melancholy
- meretriciousness
- miserableness
- misery
- moodiness
- mopes
- mournfulness
- mourning
- pain
- painfulness
- paltriness
- pathos
- poignancy
- poorness
- prostration
- shabbiness
- sharpness
- shoddiness
- soberness
- sobriety
- somberness
- sorriness
- sorrow
- sorrowfulness
- suds
- swarthiness
- unhappiness
- unworthiness
- vileness
- woe
- woefulness
- worthlessness
- wretchedness
A feeling of sadness and longing
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.
Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it."
It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
