poignancy Definition

pathos, poignance, melancholy, wistfulness, piquancy, irony, lyricism, sadness, profundity, sentimentality, subtlety, grimness, playfulness, eeriness, gravitas, sweetness, rawness, levity, humor, soulfulness, tenderness, immediacy, vividness, earnestness, lightness, anguish, sorrow, directness, hilarity, lightheartedness, starkness, creepiness, vivacity, strangeness, heartbreak, earthiness, timelessness, nuance, bittersweet, mournfulness, bathos, eloquence, profoundness, sensibility, emotion, awkwardness, resonance, solemnity, theatricality, wryness, joyousness, whimsy, verisimilitude, knowingness, frisson, poeticism, plaintiveness, romanticism, winsomeness, hopefulness, ruefulness, mawkishness, topicality, elegy, moroseness, preciousness, shadings, ingenuousness, somberness, tautness, sombreness, staginess, pensiveness, lucidity, warmth, homeliness, chirpiness, panache, spareness, dreaminess, triteness, brassiness, emotiveness, cheeriness, verve, unexpectedness, bombast, trenchancy, symbolism, breeziness, desolation, coda, otherworldliness, joviality, sauciness, ordinariness, grand guignol, weightiness, archness, fleetingness,