noun. Heaviness; weight; firmness; strength.

noun. Steadiness; steadfastness; constancy.

noun. Seriousness; gravity; discretion; sedateness; sobriety; sober earnest.

noun. The state of being sad or sorrowful; sorrowfulness; mournfulness; dejection of mind: as, sadness in the remembrance of loss.

noun. A melancholy look; gloom of countenance.

noun. Synonyms Grief, Sorrow, etc. (see affliction); despondency, melancholy, depression.

noun. Heaviness; firmness.

noun. Seriousness; gravity; discretion.

noun. Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.

noun. The state or emotion of being sad.

noun. An event in one's life that causes sadness.

noun. emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

noun. the state of being sad

noun. the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness

"For who would willingly speak on these subjects, if as often as we used the term sadness or fear, we should thereby be compelled to be sad or fearful?"

uncheerfulness  

badness  madness  

awe  bitterness  dismay  embarrassment  melancholy  

aching heart  agony  agony of mind  anguish  bale