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Definition: Sadness |
SadnessNoun1. Emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being. 2. The state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sadness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Sadness \Sad"ness\, noun. 1. Heaviness; firmness. [Obsolete]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Suffering is any unwanted condition and the corrresponding negative emotion. It is usually associated with pain and unhappiness, but any condition can be suffering if it is unwanted. Antonyms include happiness or pleasure.In a phrase like "suffering from a disease" emphasis is on having the disease, less on the unhappiness it causes.
Related terms are sadness, sorrow and grief. Some view anger as a type of suffering.
Boredom, or ennui (a French word, from Old French enui) is a reactive state to wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, etc., or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of "doing nothing". Temporarily being in a situation of boredom may also be felt as a waste of time, but then it is usually considered worse than just that. Alternatively one may have the feeling that boredom is caused by having too much time.
Buddhism
In Buddhism, suffering is called dukkha. The fundamental principles of Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths, describe dukkha and a method of ending it.
Law
The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, 1984 defines "torture" as involving "suffering":
Similarly, the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court, 1998, defines "torture" as a crime against humanity as involving "suffering":
- "...the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions. "
- ""Torture" means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions."
Christianity
"Suffering belongs to the discipline of all Christ's followers (Romans 8:17; 2 Corinthians 1:7; Galatians 3:4; Philippians 3:10; 1 Thessalonians 2:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:5; 2 Timothy 2:12; 2 Timothy 3:12; James 5:10; 1 Peter 2:20 f.; 1 Peter 3:14, 1 Peter 3:17; 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 4:13, 1 Peter 4:16; 1 Peter 5:10). Such suffering is called a suffering for God's or Christ's sake (Jeremiah 15:15; Acts 9:16; Philippians 1:29; 2 Timothy 1:12). This fellowship in suffering unites us with the saints of God in all times (James 5:10), and is indeed a fellowship with the Lord Himself (Philippians 3:10), who uses this discipline to mold us more and more according to His character."1
Language
An alternative meaning of "suffer" is "to allow".
Related topics
- Utopia
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Suffering."
Synonyms: SadnessSynonyms: sorrow (n), sorrowfulness (n), unhappiness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: happiness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Affirmation | As God is my witness, I must say, indeed, i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, I'd have you to know; upon my word, upon my honor; by my troth, egad, I assure you; by jingo, by Jove, by George; troth, seriously, sadly; in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest; of a truth, truly, perdy, in all conscience, upon oath; be assured; (belief); yes; (assent); I'll warrant, I'll warrant you, I'll engage, I'll answer for it, I'll be bound, I'll venture to say, I'll take my oath; in fact, forsooth, joking apart; so help me God; not to mince the matter. |
Dejection | Melancholy; sadness; Adjective: il penseroso, melancholia, dismals, blues, lachrymals, mumps, dumps, blue devils, doldrums; vapors, megrims, spleen, horrors, hypochondriasis, pessimism; la maladie sans maladie; despondency, slough of Despond; disconsolateness; Adjective: hope deferred, blank despondency; voiceless woe. |
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Crosswords: Sadness |
| English words defined with "sadness": abandoned ♦ bittersweet, black bile ♦ cheerlessness, cry ♦ desolation, doleful, dolefully, dolefulness, dwindling, dwindling away ♦ forlornness ♦ gloominess ♦ heavy ♦ light, loneliness, lugubriousness ♦ melancholia, melancholic, melancholy, mourn, mournful ♦ pensive ♦ regret, reproduce, ruefulness ♦ sadly, sorrow, sorrowfully ♦ tearfulness ♦ uncheerfulness, unhappy, Unsadden ♦ weep, weepiness, Weltschmerz, wistful, world-weariness. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sadness": Accordion, Apparel ♦ Chrysanthemum ♦ Daisy ♦ Farewell ♦ Ghost ♦ Heaven, Hermit ♦ Ivy ♦ Lamb, Lark, Letter-carrier, Lily, Locket ♦ Mother ♦ Pearls, Prairie ♦ Ramble, Rosemary, Ruins ♦ Sigh, Singing, Sparrow, Spirit or Specter, Stars, Swallow, Sweetheart ♦ Tomb ♦ Undress ♦ Vegetables, Veil, Village ♦ Wedding Ring. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sadness": Tristitiate. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Not even a person, really and I had seen what love could do to people, and it was hurt and sadness. Alone was better (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) That is my father's sadness talking (The Last of the Mohicans; writing credit: James Fenimore Cooper; John L. Balderston) Oh, Mother, I've had such sadness. (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott) I lost him in the Swamps of Sadness. His name was Atreyu (Unendliche Geschichte, Die; writing credit: Michael Ende; Wolfgang Petersen) Those of us left here were all struck by a sadness, almost as if a great festival had finally come to an end. (Urusei Yatsura 3: Rimenbâ mai rabu; writing credit: Tomoko Konparu; Rumiko Takahashi) | |
Lyrics | Together Wendy we'll live with the sadness ("Born to Run"; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen) The tears and the sadness you gave me ("Walk on By"; performing artist: Dionne Warwick) Sadness In my eyes (Jesus To A Child; performing artist: George Michael) From all of my sadness (Waiting For Tonight; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) Take away all my sadness (HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY; performing artist: Rod Stewart) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Sadness (1999) The Sadness of Sex (1995) Happiness & Sadness (1981) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The apathy and sadness of malnutrition. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Koundakjian.. |
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| "Orchids" by Jozsef Szoke Commentary: "Reminds me some kind of sadness. crop the frame if you wish. modified picture (with sharpening in the middle and color shifting - actually the originals were pink)." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Bovee | Active natures are rarely melancholy. -- Active and sadness are incompatible. |
Edmond and Jules De Goncourt | The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it. |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain. |
Jean Jacques Rousseau | Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. |
Karen Berry | Sadness needs its own time to be. |
Max Lerner | The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little. |
Pierre Corneille | We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And indeed I felt as if one could not easily tire of the sweet sadness of that gentle voice |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The bishop was bending with some sadness over a cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken in falling |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But in a moment his sadness left him and he was hotly disputing with Cranly and the two players who had finished their game |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He felt her sadness, and studied her face |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Many people eat in response to negative emotions such as boredom, sadness, or anger. (references) | |
The parents of a child diagnosed with Marfan syndrome may feel sadness, anger, and guilt. (references) | ||
Post-stroke depression may be more than a general sadness resulting from the stroke incident. (references) | ||
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John Walsh | I've seen the worst of society and I've seen the best. When I was at Ground Zero I saw the horrible homicides that were committed there and the sadness, but I saw the best of America. |
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Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | As I recall the high hopes for America with which we began this second term, I feel a great sadness that I will not be here in this office working on your behalf to achieve those hopes in the next two and a half years. |
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| "Sadness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sadness" is used about 768 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 768 | 8,957 |
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Expressions using "sadness": extreme sadness ♦ sadness pain. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sadness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | bedruktheid (dejection, depression, oppression, sorrow), bedroefdheid (dejection, gloom, grief, sorrow). (various references) | |
Albanian | zymtësi (blackness, bleakness), vrerosje (affliction, grieve), trishtim (damp, doldrums, gloom, low spirits, melancholy, misery, mope), hidhërim (chagrin, dejection, grief, soreness, sorrow, unhappiness), brengë (damp, grief, oppression, sorrow). (various references) | |
Arabic | غم (fill with sadness, grief, to cover, worry), كآبة (bleakness, damp, dejection, depression, desolation, despondency, dreariness, gauntness, gloom, gloominess, grief, low spirits, melancholy, moodiness, mope, sombreness, sorrow, spleen), حزن (afflict, aggrieve, anger, bale, be sorrowful, be sorry, cloud, crack, darken, depress, depression, distress, doldrums, gloom, grief, grieve, gripe, heartache, melancholy, pain, sadden, sadness pain, sorrow), ظلام (blackness, dark, gloom, gloominess, mirk, murk, night, obscurity, shade). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | униние (damp, dejection, despond, despondency, doldrums, droop, dullness, mopes), скръб (affliction, grief, regret, sorrow), печал (dolor, dolour, grief, sorrow). (various references) | |
Chinese | 悲伤 (grievous), 悲 (grief, sad, sorrow). (various references) | |
Czech | smutek (chill, gloom, grief, misery, mourning, sables, unhappiness), zármutek (bereavement, chagrin, distress, grief, pain, regret, sorrow, unhappiness, woe), žal (bereavement, heartache, heartbreak, pain, pathos, regret, sorrow, woe). (various references) | |
Dutch | zieleleed, bedroefdheid (dejection, gloom, grief, sorrow). (various references) | |
Esperanto | malgajeco (grief, sorrow), malĝojo (sorrow), afliktiĝo. (various references) | |
Finnish | surumielisyys (melancholy), surullisuus (mournfulness), surkeus (miserableness, pitifulness), murheellisuus, haikeus (poignancy). (various references) | |
French | tristesse, affliction. (various references) | |
Frisian | hertsear (dejection, sorrow), fertriet (dejection, sorrow). (various references) | |
German | Traurigkeit (cheerlessness, dolorousness, lugubriousness, mournfulness, sorrow, sorrowfulness, unhappiness), Betrübnis (annoyance, dejection, disappointment, distress, grief, sorrow). (various references) | |
Greek | λύπη (grief, pain, pity on, regret, regretfulness, sorrow, sorrowfullness, woe). (various references) | |
Hebrew | יגון (agony, desolation, gloom, grief, sorrow), עצבות (morbidity), עצב (dolour, grief, melancholy, pain, sadness pain, sorrow, toil), דאבון (anguish, pain, regret, sorrow), דאבה (anguish, anxiety, distress, grief, sorrow), נכאים (depression, gloom, grief). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szomorúság (dejection, discomfort, dismalness, dreariness, dumps, gloom, grief, mournfulness, ruefulness, sorrow, tribulation, woe). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kesenduan, kesedihan (anguish, despondency), kepiluan (being moved, emotion). (various references) | |
Italian | tristezza (dejection, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, lugubriousness, somberness, sombreness, sorrow, unhappiness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 悲しさ (grief, sorrow), 悲しみ (grief, sorrow), 悲哀 (grief, sorrow), 悲哀 (grief, sorrow), 哀情 , 哀しさ (grief, sorrow), 哀しみ (grief, sorrow). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひあい (daily interest rate, grief, sorrow, time), かなしさ (grief, sorrow), かなしみ (grief, sorrow), あいじょう (affection, love, one's beloved daughter). (various references) | |
Korean | 슬픔. (various references) | |
Manx | trimshey (dolour, sorrow, trouble, trouble bereavement), seiyjaght (calamity, mixture), neuvaynrys (miserableness, unhappiness), lag-chreeys, drogh-yien (bad temper, ill-nature), anghennallys (cheerlessness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | sorg (dejection, grief, sorrow). (various references) | |
Papiamen | ferdrit (dejection, sorrow), disgustu (dejection, disgust, loathing, nausea, sorrow). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | adnesssay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tristeza (annoyance, bleakness, dejection, gloom, grief, melancholy, mourning, regret, sorrow). (various references) | |
Romanian | supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, moroseness, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), tristeţe (blue, damp, dejection, depression, dullness, gloom, heaviness, melancholy, mourning), melancolie (blue devils, gloom, gloominess, hip, melancholia, melancholy, spleen), mâhnire (affliction, desolation, despondency, dismay, distress, grief, sorrow, trouble), duioşie (affection, feeling, fondness, gentleness), întristare (chagrin, grief, sorrow). (various references) | |
Russian | печаль (dolor, dolour, grief, mourning, smart 1, sorrow). (various references) | |
Scottish | tuirse, mulad (melancholy, sadnmess), airsneal (fatigue, heaviness, weariness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | tuga (affliction, distress, grief, heartache, melancholy, ruth, sorrow). (various references) | |
Spanish | tristeza (dejection, dreariness, gloom, lamina, melancholia, misery, sorrow). (various references) | |
Swahili | huzuni (dejection, sorrow). (various references) | |
Swedish | vemod (languor, melancholy), sorg (care, concern, distress, grief, heartache, heartbreak, mourning, pain, sorrow), bedrövelse (affliction, dejection, gloom, grief, sorrow, unhappiness). (various references) | |
Thai | ความเศร้า. (various references) | |
Turkish | keder (damp, dole, dolefulness, dolor, dolour, dreariness, gloominess, grief, heartbreak, low spirits, plaintiveness, ruefulness, shadow, sorrow, unhappiness, woe), hüzün (blues, doldrums, dole, dolefulness, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, ruefulness, shadow, somberness, sombreness, spleen), aci (acerbic, ache, affliction, annoyance, bitter, dejection, disappointment, grief, pain, sorrow), üzüntü (affliction, care, chagrin, damp, dejection, desolation, distress, disturbance, fret, grief, hurt, mopes, regret, sorrow, straits, trouble, unhappiness, woe, worry). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tukatlyk (melancholy), gaяgy. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сум (mourning), статечність (sedateness), серйозність (demureness, earnest, gravity, seriousness, severity), журба (grame, melancholy). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự buồn rầu (cloud, depression, sorrow, sullenness), sự buồn bã. (various references) | |
Welsh | trymfryd (sorrow), tristwch (sorrow), prudd-der (gloom), llawfrydedd, chwithdod (strangeness), brwyn (grief), annywenydd, anaelau (extremely, fatal, pain, terrible). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | melankholia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ægrimonia, maeror, maerore, maeroribus, maeroris, maestitia, mæstitia, miseria, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, tristitia, tristitiae, tristitiam, tristitias. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | geomerung. (various references) |
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| Language | Date | Source | Ecclesiastes Chapter 7, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Agaqon qumoV uper gelwta oti en kakia proswpou agaqunqhsetai kardia |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Melius est ire ad domum luctus quam ad domum convivii in illa enim finis cunctorum admonetur hominum et vivens cogitat quid futurum sit |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Betere is to go to the hous of weiling, than to the hous of a feste; in it forsothe the ende of alle men is warned, and liuende he thenketh, what be to come. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better. |
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| Language | Ecclesiastes Chapter 7, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | Labi pang maayo ang kasubo kay sa pagkatawa: kay tungod sa kasubo sa panagway ang kasingkasing gihimong malipayon. |
| Croatian | Bolji je jad nego smijeh, jer pod žalosnim licem srce je radosno. |
| Danish | Bedre Græmmelse end Latter, thi er Minerne mørke, har Hjertet det godt. |
| Dutch | Het treuren is beter dan het lachen; want door de droefheid des aangezichts wordt het hart gebeterd. |
| Finnish | Parempi kuin pitotaloon on mennä surutaloon, sillä siinä on kaikkien ihmisten loppu, ja elossa oleva painaa sen mieleensä. |
| French | Mieux vaut le chagrin que le rire; car avec un visage triste le coeur peut être content. |
| German | Es ist Trauern besser als Lachen; denn durch Trauern wird das Herz gebessert. |
| Haitian Creole | Pito yon moun nan lapenn pase pou l' gen kè kontan. Lapenn rale figi ou, men l'ap louvri lespri ou. |
| Hungarian | Jobb a szomorúság a nevetésnél; mert az orczának szomorúsága által jobbá lesz a szív. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kesedihan lebih baik daripada tawa. Biar wajah murung, asal hati lega. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Baiklah dukacita dari pada tertawa, karena muram muka membaiki hati. |
| Italian | E' preferibile la mestizia al riso, perché sotto un triste aspetto il cuore è felice. |
| Maori | Ko te ngakau mamae, pai atu i te kata; ma te pouri hoki o te mata ka pai ai te ngakau. |
| Norwegian | Bedre er gremmelse enn latter; for mens ansiktet er sørgmodig, er hjertet vel til mote. |
| Portuguese | Melhor é a mágoa do que o riso, porque a tristeza do rosto torna melhor o coração. |
| Rumanian | Mai bunq este kntristarea deckt rksul; cqci prin kntristarea feyei inima se face mai bunq. |
| Russian | уЕФПЧБОЙЕ МХЮЫЕ УНЕИБ; РПФПНХ ЮФП РТЙ РЕЮБМЙ МЙГБ УЕТДГЕ ДЕМБЕФУС МХЮЫЕ. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sadness": sadnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Sadness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ashness, candess, saddness, sadeness, sadens, Sadnes, Sandes, Sarnoeds. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sadness" (pronounced sa"dnus) |
| 5 | -a" d n u s | badness, madness. |
| 4 | -d n u s | awkwardness, backwardness, baldness, blandness, blindness, boldness, coldness, crookedness, farsightedness, fondness, goodness, handedness, hardness, indebtedness, kindness, mindedness, nearsightedness, preparedness, redness, rudeness, sacredness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, soundness, spiritedness, tiredness, vividness, weirdness, wickedness, wildness. |
| 3 | -n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, alertness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, appropriateness, arbitrariness, assertiveness, astuteness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, bagginess, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, bleakness, bluntness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, brightness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, Colonus, combativeness, compactness, competitiveness, completeness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, correctness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, cuteness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, directness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, earnestness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, eyewitness, faintness, fairness, fastness, fickleness, firmness, fitness, flatness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, forthrightness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gauntness, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, governess, graciousness, greatness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, happiness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, ineptness, inertness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, larcenous, largeness, lateness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, lightfastness, lightness, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, neatness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, politeness, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, queasiness, quickness, quietness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, remoteness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, rightness, riskiness, robustness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, ruinous, ruthlessness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, separateness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, softness, solitariness, squeamishness, starkness, steadfastness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, stoutness, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, sweetness, swiftness, tardiness, tartness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, tightness, timeliness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unpleasantness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, vastness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, wellness, wetness, whiteness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wilderness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, witness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-n-s-s-s" | |
-1 letter: sassed, sedans. | |
-2 letters: assed, asses, deans, sades, sands, saned, sanes, sedan, sends, sensa, sneds. | |
-3 letters: ands, anes, dean, dens, ends, ness, sade, sand, sane, sans, sass, seas, send, sned. | |
-4 letters: ads, and, ane, ass, den, eds, end, ens, ess, nae, sad, sae, sea, sen. | |
-5 letters: ad, ae, an, as, de, ed, en, es, na, ne. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-n-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: wessands. | |
+2 letters: badnesses, danseuses, madnesses, sadnesses, sandiness, sandshoes, shadiness, staidness, sunshades. | |
+3 letters: absurdness, acidnesses, agednesses, aridnesses, avidnesses, baldnesses, daftnesses, dampnesses, danknesses, darknesses, deadnesses, deafnesses, dearnesses, dismalness, drabnesses, gladnesses, hardnesses, landmasses, newsstands, sacredness, sandfishes, sandstones, seastrands, sedateness, standishes, steadiness, unassisted, windlasses. | |
+4 letters: acridnesses, adeptnesses, adultnesses, adverseness, arduousness, assuredness, bawdinesses, blandnesses, broadnesses, caddishness, dailinesses, datednesses, dazednesses, deaconesses, depressants, desistances, dispersants, dissonances, distantness, dwarfnesses, dyskinesias, faddishness, gaudinesses, grandnesses, handinesses, handpresses, hardinesses, headinesses, inspissated, jadednesses, laundresses, nakednesses, pantdresses, rabidnesses, rapidnesses, readinesses, sandglasses, sandgrouses, sandinesses, scandalises, shadinesses, shadowiness, soundstages, squalidness, staidnesses, subacidness, tardinesses, underpasses, unsurpassed, vapidnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Translations: Ancient 19. Bible Trace 20. Derivations | 21. Rhymes 22. Anagrams 23. Bibliography |
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