poignancy
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow
a moment of extraordinary poignancy
Types & categories
- sorrowfulness hypernym
Related & opposite
- poignant derivation
Sense 2 noun
a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
the film captured all the pathos of their situation
Types & categories
- quality hypernym
Related & opposite
- touching derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | poignant |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | sorrowfulness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | touching |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | quality |