mournfulness

1. In the meantime, under the Enlightenment of music, the emotion style of literary creation had also changed from elegance and purity to mournfulness and gorgeousness.
   同时，受音乐的启发，诗文创作的情感风格也由“雅”、“正”转而为“悲”、“艳”。
2. The system of keeping vigil beside the dead in ancient China refers to the norms of behavior of the mourners while in mourning and is an important exhibition of the Confucian filial duty, whose basic requirement is a full expression of mournfulness.
   中国古代的守丧制度是指服丧者在丧期内的行为规范，是丧服制度的重要内容。守丧制度是儒家“孝道”的重要体现，其基本要求就是尽“哀”。

noun

1. a state of gloomy sorrow

   Synonym:    sorrowfulnessruthfulness