Usually means: Evoking a keen sense of sadness.
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  1. poignance: Merriam-Webster
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  10. poignance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. poignance: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Poignancy; the quality or state of being poignant.

Similar:
poignancy, piquantness, pertinacy, pungency, painfulness, plaintiveness, pointfulness, pertinence, patheticness, plangency, more...

Opposite:
bluntness, insipidity, dullness

Types:
pathos, tragedy, comedy, ironic, tragicomic, dramatic, humorous, satirical, more...

Adjectives:
special, particular, certain, great, such, new, peculiar, added, irresistible, more, real

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Similar:
poignancy, piquantness, pertinacy, pungency, painfulness, plaintiveness, pointfulness, pertinence, patheticness, plangency, more...

Opposite:
bluntness, insipidity, dullness

Types:
pathos, tragedy, comedy, ironic, tragicomic, dramatic, humorous, satirical, more...

Adjectives:
special, particular, certain, great, such, new, peculiar, added, irresistible, more, real



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