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poignancy

English

  1. 🔊 a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
    “the film captured all the pathos of their situation”
  2. 🔊 a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow
    “a moment of extraordinary poignancy”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 patetismo poignancy

Similar words

pathos poignance acerbity acidity acidulousness acridity acrimony asperity astringency bite bitingness bitterness bleakness causticity cheerlessness comfortlessness cuttingness dash depression discomfort dismalness distress distressfulness dreariness