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.