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BROKENHEARTEDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brokenheartedness mean? 

BROKENHEARTEDNESS (noun)
  The noun BROKENHEARTEDNESS has 1 sense:

1. intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)play

  Familiarity information: BROKENHEARTEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BROKENHEARTEDNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

brokenheartedness; grief; heartache; heartbreak

Hypernyms ("brokenheartedness" is a kind of...):

sorrow (an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brokenheartedness"):

dolor; dolour ((poetry) painful grief)

Derivation:

brokenhearted (full of sorrow)


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