Poignancy
[n] a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation"
[n] a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow; "a moment of extraordinary poignancy"
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acerbity, acidity, acidulousness, acridity, acrimony, asperity, astringency, bite, bitingness, bitterness, bleakness, causticity, cheerlessness, comfortlessness, cuttingness, dash, depression, discomfort, dismalness, distress, distressfulness, dreariness,