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POIGNANCY

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• POIGNANCY (noun)
The noun POIGNANCY has 2 senses:

1. a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow
2. a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

Familiarity information: POIGNANCY used as a noun is rare.

• POIGNANCY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A state of deeply felt distress or sorrow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

poignance; poignancy

Context example:

a moment of extraordinary poignancy

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

sadness; sorrow; sorrowfulness (the state of being sad)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

A quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

pathos; poignancy

Context example:

the film captured all the pathos of their situation

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
(English proverb)
"If you do not sow, you can't reap."
(Albanian proverb)
"A tree starts with a seed."
(Arabic proverb)
"Away from the eye, out of the heart."
(Dutch proverb)

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