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ruefulness

 
Noun ruefulness has 1 sense
  1. 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:
     attrition, contrition, contriteness; compunction, remorse, self-reproach
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