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Poignancy Moderate

Poignancy has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow

"a moment of extraordinary poignancy"

2

a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

"the film captured all the pathos of their situation"

3

The quality of being poignant

See Also
poignant poignance
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
sadness quality
Rhyming Words
ency incy ancy fancy nancy zincy mancy mincy noncy dancy duncy poncy yancy cincy trancy pouncy rouncy egency dauncy anancy
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