heavy-heartedness
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heav·y-heart·ed
(hĕv′ē-här′tĭd)adj.
Melancholy; depressed; sad.
heav′y-heart′ed·ly adv.
heav′y-heart′ed·ness n.
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heavy-heartedness
nounA feeling or spell of dismally low spirits:
blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, melancholy, mope (used in plural), mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness.
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