MEANING
A quality that touches emotion deeply, often through a mixture of tenderness, sadness, or loss.
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- emotional poignancy
- added poignancy
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The familiar handwriting added poignancy to the farewell.
Their brief reunion had a poignancy neither tried to name.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Usually uncountable; plural poignancies for particular moving details. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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