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Noun ruefulness has 1 sense
- sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness - sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game"
--1 is a kind of sadness, unhappiness
--1 has particulars:
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