Usually means: Emotional state of feeling unhappy.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word sadness:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. sadness: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sadness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sadness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sadness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Sadness, sadness: Wordnik
  6. sadness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. sadness: Wiktionary
  8. sadness: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sadness: Dictionary.com
  10. sadness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Sadness (Inside Out), Sadness (video game), Sadness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Sadness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. sadness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. sadness: Rhymezone
  15. Sadness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. sadness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. sadness: Free Dictionary
  18. sadness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. sadness: Dictionary/thesaurus

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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