Synonyms of the word

poignancy

• n. The quality of being poignant.

pathos

• n. The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially…
• n. (rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of…
• n. (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
• n. (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep…
• n. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

poignance

• n. Poignancy; the quality or state of being poignant.

quality

• n. (uncountable) Level of excellence.
• n. (countable) A property or an attribute that differentiates a thing or person.
• n. (archaic) High social position. (See also the quality.).
• n. (uncountable) The degree to which a man-made object or system is free from bugs and flaws, as opposed…
• n. (thermodynamics) In a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, the ratio of the mass of vapor present to the total…
• n. (emergency medicine, countable) The third step in OPQRST where the responder investigates what the NOI/MOI…
• adj. Being of good worth, well made, fit for purpose.

sadness

• n. (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
• n. (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.

sorrow

• n. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe.
• n. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
• v. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

sorrowfulness

• n. The quality or state of sorrow; sadness.