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poignancy


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Poignancy  \Poign"an*cy\,  n. 
  The  quality  or  state  of  being  poignant;  as  the  poignancy  of 
  satire;  the  poignancy  of  grief.  --Swift. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  poignancy 
  n  1:  a  state  of  deeply  felt  distress  or  sorrow:  "a  moment  of 
  extraordinary  poignancy"  [syn:  {poignance}] 
  2:  a  quality  that  arouses  emotions  (especially  pity  or  sorrow); 
  "the  film  captured  all  the  pathos  of  their  situation" 
  [syn:  {pathos}] 




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