sadness

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Sad boy
Farewell to the father

Sadness is an emotion that is based on a mostly fateful event and can contain deep consternation . Pierer's Universal Lexikon of 1863 writes about this, sadness is " the general, lively feeling of pain, even if it is not aroused by a specific, currently existing cause ..."

Emergence

It can be part of a grief response, but it can also follow other adverse events such as social rejection, missing a personal goal, or unfulfilled expectations. Sadness can denote an emotion, but also the corresponding subjective feeling. It can arise, for example, through

and has diverse and profound effects in the immediate personal living environment. Sadness can be a feeling of dejection, lack of drive, impaired joy in life , emotional pain and depression , a life crisis , depression or lead to a severe offense . According to Pierer, the sadness shows " on the outside through slackened features, lowered, dull, often tearful eyes, drawn-down corners of the mouth, pallor of the face, weak, slow speech, sighs, hunched posture of the body ".

From melancholy man (often lengthy) speaks especially in sadness that uses no apparent reason, continues, or can be returned by the person concerned no triggers or reasons. Sadness is also an essential aspect of sadness , but it has a lot more meanings.

Sayings and the like

Several idioms deal with sadness:

  • No child of sadness is a paraphrase for a cheerful person.
  • Sadness improves the heart.
  • Sadness overcomes the man that he reveals a lot of secrecy.
  • Sadness causes heartache.

See also

Web links

Commons : Sadness  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Sadness  - Quotes
Wiktionary: sadness  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. a b Pierer’s Universal Lexicon: Sadness on zeno.org
  2. Wander: Deutsches Sprichwort-Lexikon: Sadness on zeno.org