Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sadness

Sadness , noun

1.
Heaviness; firmness. [Obsolete]
2.
Seriousness; gravity; discretion. [Obsolete]
Her sadness and her benignity. — Chaucer
3.
Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection.
Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. — Milton