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Meaning of "mournfulness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MOURNFULNESS

mournfulness  [ˈmɔːnfʊlnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MOURNFULNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mournfulness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MOURNFULNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of mournfulness in the English dictionary

The definition of mournfulness in the dictionary is the quality or state of evoking grief; sorrowfulness. Other definition of mournfulness is gloominess; sadness.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MOURNFULNESS


branfulness
ˈbrænfʊlnɪs
carefulness
ˈkeəfʊlnɪs
faithfulness
ˈfeɪθfʊlnɪs
fearfulness
ˈfɪəfʊlnɪs
forgetfulness
fəˈɡetfʊlnɪs
fruitfulness
ˈfruːtfʊlnɪs
fullness
ˈfʊlnɪs
gracefulness
ˈɡreɪsfʊlnɪs
helpfulness
ˈhelpfʊlnɪs
joyfulness
ˈdʒɔɪfʊlnɪs
mindfulness
ˈmaɪndfʊlnɪs
playfulness
ˈpleɪfʊlnɪs
sinfulness
ˈsɪnfʊlnɪs
thankfulness
ˈθæŋkfʊlnɪs
thoughtfulness
ˈθɔːtfʊlnɪs
truthfulness
ˈtruːθfʊlnɪs
tunefulness
ˈtjuːnfʊlnɪs
usefulness
ˈjuːsfʊlnɪs
wastefulness
ˈweɪstfʊlnɪs
wilfulness
ˈwɪlfʊlnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MOURNFULNESS

mounting
mounting-block
Mounty
moup
mourn
Mourne Mountains
mourner
mournful
mournfully
mourning
mourning band
mourning cloak
mourning clothes
mourning dove
mourningly
mournival
mousaka
mouse
mouse deer
mouse jockey

WORDS THAT END LIKE MOURNFULNESS

awfulness
business
casualness
coolness
deceitfulness
dullness
evilness
foulness
healthfulness
illness
meaningfulness
mental illness
peacefulness
realness
resourcefulness
skillfulness
smallness
specialness
stillness
wellness
wonderfulness

Synonyms and antonyms of mournfulness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mournfulness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MOURNFULNESS

Find out the translation of mournfulness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mournfulness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mournfulness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

mournfulness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mournfulness
570 millions of speakers

English

mournfulness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

mournfulness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

mournfulness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

mournfulness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mournfulness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

mournfulness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mournfulness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesedihan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Traurigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

mournfulness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

mournfulness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mournfulness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mournfulness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

mournfulness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शोकाकुलता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mournfulness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

afflizione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mournfulness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

mournfulness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Întristarea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

mournfulness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

mournfulness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mournfulness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mournfulness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mournfulness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MOURNFULNESS»

The term «mournfulness» is used very little and occupies the 155.415 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MOURNFULNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «mournfulness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «mournfulness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mournfulness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOURNFULNESS»

Discover the use of mournfulness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mournfulness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Melancholy Dialectics: Walter Benjamin and the Play of Mourning
In a corresponding sense, the mournfulness (Trauer) of human life after the Fall is an objectively necessary feeling and is matched by the mournfulness of nature itself: After the Fall . . . when God's word curses the ground, the appearance of ...
Max Pensky, 2001
2
Music and Meaning
3, is marked Largo e mesto (Broad — slow and dignified — and mournful), and the mournfulness is just as much a part of the music as the tempo. The experience of the mournfulness is not mediated by thoughts of some other objects out in the ...
Jenefer Robinson, 1997
3
What Is Music?: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music
But surely, the emotivist is bound to retort, it is utterly perverse for someone to claim that the mournfulness of deeply moving music has nothing whatever to do with our being moved. And so it is: most perverse. However, it is a perversity that the ...
Philip Alperson, 2010
4
Lilacs in the Snow: A Novel
The. terrible. mournfulness... of. the. truth. gnawed. within. her. There was a great sense of letdown and discontent following our return to Montréal from Old Orchard Beach. It was as if we never went. My father's jocular mood vanished and he ...
A. K. Henderson, 2011
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Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in ...
5 Representative Mournfulness Nation and Race in the Time of Lincoln Strange ( is it not?), that battles, martyrs, agonies, blood, even assassination, should so condense — perhaps only really, lastingly condense — a Nationality. — Walt ...
Dana Luciano, 2007
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Brigadier-General Thomas Francis Meagher: His Political and ...
It was such an evening that good hearts might have been touched with great tenderness, if not with mournfulness. Not with the mournfulness which comes from anguish and pervades our nature as if with the faint pulsation of a subsiding  ...
W. F. Lyons, 1870
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Critical Kitaj: Essays on the Work of R.B. Kitaj
Here meaning is encountered, and will continue to be encountered as the reason for mournfulness." This mournfulness, which has its counterpart in the mourning by mute nature, is not the same as the renunciation of false consolation found in ...
James Aulich, John Lynch, 2000
8
Gravity's Revolt: Part Two
... the precious modus was dissolving—I've been trying to get at the mournfulness which haunted this spring of Becky's se- nior year from different directions, it was always the same mournfulness, the realization of how short the time was for us ...
William Guy
9
Music Alone: Philosophical Reflections on the Purely Musical ...
But surely, the emotivist is bound to retort, it is utterly perverse for someone to claim that the mournfulness of deeply moving music has nothing whatever to do with our being moved. And so it is: most perverse. However, it is a perversity that the ...
Peter Kivy, 1990
10
The Inward Road and the Way Back
Suso, for example, in one of his sermons, divides the inner weaknesses that drive people into corners into three groups: vague melancholy, disordered mournfulness, and violent doubt. These are the manifest expressions of the “ Nonidentity” ...
Dorothee Soelle, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MOURNFULNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mournfulness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
The Open 2015: Golf's top stars take on new image in half-light
Finally, they were able to salute Tom Watson, his wizened face a picture of relief and mournfulness, as the departing five-time champion stood ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Latest around the region
She brings a quiet dignity, widow's mournfulness, banked romantic fires and a streak forged from independence, stubbornness and ... «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
3
Top Gear bows out with a phoney tear and a huge smirk
An air of mournfulness — which felt deliberately engineered by the departing Top Gear team for maximum effect — hung over the 75-minute ... «Herald, Jun 15»
4
Review: 'I'll See You in My Dreams' is a showcase for Danner
She brings a quiet dignity, widow's mournfulness, banked romantic fires and a streak forged from independence, stubbornness and ... «The Missoulian, Jun 15»
5
Writer-director Lou Howe, star Rory Culkin wrap their minds around …
... Gabe spins between sly manipulation and mournfulness, until he makes a desperate play for happiness by seeking out a girl he once knew. «New York Daily News, Jun 15»
6
Review: Old showman goes back to his roorts
... such as Randy Newman's Mama Told Me Not To Come and John Lee Hooker's Burning Hell were steeped in passion and mournfulness. «Irish Independent, Jun 15»
7
Michael Winterbottom tackles the Amanda Knox case with The Face …
... who receives the movie's dedication), and tries to locate a spiritual mournfulness in her untimely death, lost in the tabloid noise. Unfortunately ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jun 15»
8
Rickie Lee Jones and James Taylor
Taylor's singing has changed over the years, of course, but the mournfulness and the unadorned clarity are still prominent. It is difficult for ... «The New Yorker, Jun 15»
9
Spike Lee enters the inner-city crime genre with Clockers
Lee isn't in entertainer mode, but despite its mournfulness, the movie is gripping and impeccably made. This was his first of three films with ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jun 15»
10
Movie review: 'I'll See You In My Dreams' brings a note of hope
She brings a quiet dignity, widow's mournfulness, banked romantic fires and a streak forged from independence, stubbornness and ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Mournfulness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/mournfulness>. May 2024 ».
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