Usually means: Emotional state of feeling unhappy.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word sadness:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. sadness: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sadness: Merriam-Webster
  3. sadness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sadness: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sadness: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sadness, sadness: Wordnik
  7. sadness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sadness: Wiktionary
  9. sadness: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sadness: Dictionary.com
  11. sadness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Sadness (Inside Out), Sadness (video game), Sadness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Sadness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. sadness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. sadness: Rhymezone
  16. Sadness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. sadness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. sadness: FreeDictionary.org
  19. sadness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. sadness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sadness: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sadness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sadness: Merck Manuals
  2. sadness: Medical dictionary
  3. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sadness: Idioms

(Note: See sad as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
noun:  (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.

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