Wistfulness [noun]
Definition of Wistfulness:
depression, sadness
Synonyms of Wistfulness:
● Gloom
● Desperation
● Sorrow
● Despondency
● Grief
● Despair
● Boredom
● Ennui
● Tedium
● Mournfulness
● Dejection
● Downer
● Dolor
● Dumps
● Letdown
● Bummer
● Misery
● Woe
● Wretchedness
● Blues
● Funk
● Unhappiness
● Blue devils
● Blue funk
● Blahs
● Pensiveness
● Miserableness
● Gloominess
● Dismals
● Dolefuls
● Down trip
● Low spirits
Opposite/Antonyms of Wistfulness:
● Joyousness
● Blessing
● Benefit
● Confidence
● Cheer
● Gladness
● Boon
● Advantage
● Excitement
● Joy
● Happiness
Sentence/Example of Wistfulness:
There was a new atmosphere of wistfulness about the girl that made his heart ache.
There was a wistfulness about Tillie's mouth that set him wondering.
There had been a wistfulness, so rarely in Martin's voice, that Rose had detected it instantly.
A new wistfulness was in her face, but it was not the wistfulness of hunger.
Vere smiled as she listened, but there was a wistfulness in her heart.
The wistfulness left her eyes, and she smiled mischievously.
He shook his head, and his face grew overcast and softened by wistfulness.
Then he added, with a sort of wistfulness: "But Indian would leave pale-face——"
She turned from his gaze, but not before he had seen the wistfulness his speech had evoked.
When she looked again, his face had lost that smile for a kind of wistfulness.