tristesse

Borrowed from French tristesse.

• Rhymes: -ɛs

tristesse (uncountable)

1. (literary) sadness
   • 2007 January 14, Liesl Schillinger, quoting Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, in New York Times‎:

     “The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.”

• resistest

From French tristesse.

tristesse f (plural tristesses, diminutive tristessetje n)

1. tristesse

First attested in Old French as tristesce, tristece. From triste +‎ -esse, modeled after Latin tristitia.

• IPA^(key): /tʁis.tɛs/

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tristesse f (plural tristesses)

1. sadness

   La tristesse durera

   the sadness will last

• triste

• etymology

• “tristesse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).