tristesse
/trɪˈstɛs
/noun [mass noun] literary
A state of melancholy sadness: lamenting a lost love, he leaves us poised at the lip of a chasm of tristesse post-coital tristesse...
- They knew that satiation wasn't succeeded by tristesse, it was itself, immediately, tristesse.
- But here more than anywhere I remember lost times, lost chances, lost friends, with the sweet tristesse that is onomatopoeic to the place.
- And they specialize in a sort of ceremonial tristesse that colors their writing with wan accents of pain, grief, mourning and death.
Origin
French.
Rhymes
- studenty
- student–teacher
- studerite
- stud horse
- stud-horse poker
- studiable
- studied
- studiedly
- studiedness
- studier
- studify
- studio
- studio album
- studio apartment
- studio audience
- studio bed
- studio couch
- studio flat
- studiolo
- studio party
- studio portrait
- studio recording
- studiosity
- studio system
- studio theatre