heavyheartedness
Emotional weight inside
Heavyheartedness is the state of feeling weighed down by sadness, grief, or worry.
The metaphor treats sorrow as a physical burden pressing on the chest: She couldn't shake the heavyheartedness that followed the funeral.
The word is somewhat literary; in everyday speech, people more often say they feel heavyhearted or simply sad.
State without hope
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
torment · distress · wretchedness · bleakness · despondency · disconsolation · darkness · abyss
Sadly longing for something
- pensiveQuietly, sadly thoughtful
- nostalgicLonging for the past
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- reflectiveCasting back light
brooding · bittersweet · longing · rumination · plaintive · doleful · somber · forlorn
Guilt for wrongdoing
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- rueFeel deep remorse
compunction · self-reproach · penitence · sorrow · shame · wistfulness · lament · hindsight
State following loss
- lossBeing without something
- mourningPeriod following loss
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- desolationState of complete emptiness
lamentation · inconsolable · bereft · condolences · funeral · wake · eulogy · memorial
Deep emotional distress
- downcastSad or despondent
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
- crestfallenSad from disappointment
- glumQuietly dejected
woeful · dispirited · dejected · tearful · weeping · blue · low · downtrodden
hopelessness
State without hope
- desolationState of complete emptiness
- anguishIntense mental suffering
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
suffering · torment · distress · wretchedness · bleakness · despondency · disconsolation · darkness · abyss · burden
wistful
Sadly longing for something
reflective · brooding · bittersweet · longing · rumination · plaintive · doleful · somber · forlorn · contemplative
remorse
Guilt for wrongdoing
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
rue · compunction · self-reproach · penitence · sorrow · shame · wistfulness · lament · hindsight · burden
bereavement
State following loss
desolation · lamentation · inconsolable · bereft · condolences · funeral · wake · eulogy · memorial · shiva
sorrow
Deep emotional distress
- downcastSad or despondent
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
- crestfallenSad from disappointment
glum · woeful · dispirited · dejected · tearful · weeping · blue · low · downtrodden · heartbroken
- sadnesssad, unhappy, grief, sorrowful, heartbroken
heavyheartednesslightheartedness
Cheerful lack of worry
joy · happiness · elation · jubilation · cheerfulness
heavyheartednesslightness
Minimal weight or gravity
buoyancy · carefreeness · high spirits · airiness · levity
heavily, heartache, heaviness, heavier, disheartened, dishearten, disheartening, hard-hearted, heaviest