Synonym: pathos, poignance. Similar words: poignant, poignantly, pregnancy, stagnancy, indignant, malignant, indignantly, malignantly. Meaning: ['pɔɪnənsɪ] 
n. 1. a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow 2. a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow).
n. 1. a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow 2. a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow). 
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1. a moment of extraordinary poignancy.
2. The film contains moments of almost unbearable poignancy.
3. The poem has a haunting poignancy.
4. Of particular poignancy was the photograph of their son with his sisters, taken the day before he died.
5. The poignancy in this kiss on her warm lips nearly induced instant paralysis on every sense of her body.
6. Freni traditionally epitomized poignancy and lyric charm, tinged with a measure of sensuality.
7. The poignancy of that piece is the circumstance of its composition, not its subject matter.
8. It adds some retrospective poignancy to our story, I think, and possibly some connection to Emerson's universe.
9. There is a certain poignancy about Eric.
10. Poignancy was largely subsumed into world-weariness, resurfacing in spasms of authenticity.
11. Which lends extra poignancy to the vision of Turkey as the lynchpin of this empire, covering all Muslims and all Turks.
12. She must have been six-teen or seventeen, and looked out at him with a poignancy that gripped his heart.
13. West's elegy magnifies the warts and the amours,(Sentence dictionary) yet gives poetic poignancy to the portraits he draws here.
14. On top of it all, there was a touch of poignancy to his forced retirement.
15. Hui and screenwriter Li Qiang have a knack for humorous observation, but the film rambles , the actors tending for too long to overplay the comedy and ignore the underlying poignancy.
16. Just trying to do my little part to build the giant tower of Tweeted junk, wisdom, jokes, ephemera and poignancy.
17. He was the last of that generation and the poignancy of that is almost overwhelming.
18. The movie, " Trains, Planes, and Automobiles " treats this with hilarity and poignancy.
19. As she sat in church her face had a pathos and poignancy.
More similar words: poignant, poignantly, pregnancy, stagnancy, indignant, malignant, indignantly, malignantly, tenancy, repugnance, signal, big-name, stagnant, pregnant, repugnant, foreign aid, signature, designate, designated, magnanimity, magnanimous, indignation, designation, resignation, foreign affairs, design cycle, fancy, vacancy, pliancy, truancy.