sadness

1. Emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being (synset 107547828)
   is a type of: feeling - the experiencing of affective and emotional states
   subtypes:

   • dolefulness - sadness caused by grief or affliction
   • heaviness - persisting sadness
   • melancholy - a feeling of thoughtful sadness
   • misery - a feeling of intense unhappiness
   • desolation, forlornness, loneliness - sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned
   • tearfulness, weepiness - sadness expressed by weeping
   • sorrow - an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement
   • regret, rue, ruefulness, sorrow - sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
   • cheerlessness, uncheerfulness - a feeling of dreary or pessimistic sadness
   • depression - sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
   • dejectedness, dispiritedness, downheartedness, low-spiritedness, lowness - a feeling of low spirits
   same as: unhappiness
2. The state of being sad (synset 114012536)
   "she tired of his perpetual sadness"
   is a type of: unhappiness - state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief
   subtypes:

   • bereavement, mourning - state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
   • poignance, poignancy - a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow
   same as: sorrow, sorrowfulness
3. The quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness (synset 104638827)
   is a type of: uncheerfulness - not conducive to cheer or good spirits
   same as: gloominess, lugubriousness

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