Term: plaintiveness: expressing sorrowfulness
Broader: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow | Unrelated: fuller's earth: an absorbent soil resembling clay; used in fulling (shrinking and thickening) woolen cloth and as an adsorbent
Broader: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow | Unrelated: pleochroism: the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions
Broader: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow | Unrelated: ceratostomella: genus of fungi forming continuous hyaline spores
Broader: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow | Unrelated: scomberesox: a genus of Scomberesocidae
Broader: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow | Unrelated: tetragram: a word that is written with four letters in an alphabetic writing system
Broader: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow | Unrelated: lease: the period of time during which a contract conveying property to a person is in effect
Broader: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow | Unrelated: haslet: heart and liver and other edible viscera especially of hogs; usually chopped and formed into a loaf and braised
Broader: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow | Unrelated: downshift: a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one
Broader: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow | Unrelated: beaugregory: a blue and yellow damselfish of Bermuda and Florida and the West Indies
Broader: mournfulness: a state of gloomy sorrow | Unrelated: alleviator: a therapist who makes suffering more endurable