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Poignance

//ˈpɔɪnjəns// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Poignancy; the quality or state of being poignant. countable, uncountable

    "The objects themselves might have come from some Stone Age grave so remote did they seem: yet they had poignance."

  2. 2
    a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow wordnet

Etymology

From poignant + -ance.

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