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Sadness is an emotional pain associated with, or characterized by, feelings of disadvantage, loss, despair, grief, helplessness, disappointment and sorrow. An individual experiencing sadness may become quiet or lethargic , and withdraw themselves from others.
A young child crying . Crying is the dropping of tears (or welling of tears in the eyes) in response to an emotional state or physical pain.Emotions that can lead to crying include sadness, anger, joy, and fear.
People with depression may experience sadness, feelings of dejection or hopelessness, difficulty in thinking and concentration, or a significant change in appetite or time spent sleeping; suicidal thoughts can also be experienced. Depression can have multiple, sometimes overlapping, origins.
Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...
Sadness is an emotion associated with loss and grief. Sadness may also refer to: Sadness, canceled Wii video game; Sadness, character in Pixar's Inside Out franchise; The Sadness, 2021 film by Rob Jabbaz; Carlos Sadness, Spanish singer, songwriter, and illustrator; Tree of sadness, Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
George Bonanno, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University, in his book The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After a Loss, [39] summarizes peer-reviewed research based on thousands of subjects over two decades and concludes that a natural psychological resilience is a principal ...
Anger, Anticipation, Joy, and Trust are positive in valence, while Fear, Surprise, Sadness, and Disgust are negative in valence. Anger is classified as a "positive" emotion because it involves "moving toward" a goal, [ 62 ] while surprise is negative because it is a violation of someone's territory. [ 63 ]
Engraving by Jusepe de Ribera depicting the melancholic and world-weary figure of a poet. Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts] ⓘ; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, [1] [2] resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute ...