sadness
  悲哀,悲傷
  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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  sadness
       n 1: emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being [syn:
             unhappiness] [ant: happiness]
       2: the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness"
          [syn: sorrow, sorrowfulness]