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WOEFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woefulness mean? 

WOEFULNESS (noun)
  The noun WOEFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. intense mournfulnessplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


WOEFULNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Intense mournfulness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

woe; woefulness

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

mournfulness; ruthfulness; sorrowfulness (a state of gloomy sorrow)

Derivation:

woeful (affected by or full of grief or woe)


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