Poignance
//ˈpɔɪnjəns//
"Poignance" in a Sentence (2 examples)
The objects themselves might have come from some Stone Age grave so remote did they seem: yet they had poignance.
Too bad Locke's idea didn't catch on; the thought of measuring things in philosophical feet has an unquestionable poignance.
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