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poignancy

/ˈpɔɪnjən(t)si/

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obsolete/ˈpɔɪnənsi/

poignancy noun: the quality of being poignant.

Noun

poignancy (usually uncountable, plural poignancies)

  1. (usually) The quality of being poignant.
    • The Conan O’Brien-penned half-hour has the capacity to rip our collective hearts out the way the cute, funny bad girl next door does to Bart when she reveals that her new boyfriend is Jimbo Jones, but the show keeps shying away from genuine emotion in favor of jokes that, while overwhelmingly...2012 May 27, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “New Kid On The Block” (season 4, episode 8; originally aired 11/12/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club

poignancy meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

poignancy in Hindi

poignancy, touchingness
मार्मिकता mārmiktā

poignancy in Urdu

شدت, تکلیف دہی, تیزی

poignancy in Bengali

তীব্র মানসিক বেদনা, মর্মস্পর্শী ভাব

poignancy in Malayalam

pitifulness, pathos, piteousness
ദയനീയത, കരുണരസം, ആർദ്രഭാവം, പരിതാപകരമായ അവസ്ഥ, കഷ്ടത, ദുരിതം

Forms of poignancy

pluralpoignancies

Questions about poignancy

What does poignancy mean?
Poignancy means the quality of being poignant.
What is poignancy in Hindi?
Poignancy in Hindi is मार्मिकता (mārmiktā). See Poignancy meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is poignancy?
Poignancy is a noun.
How do you pronounce poignancy?
Poignancy is pronounced /ˈpɔɪnjən(t)si/ (UK).
What is the plural of poignancy?
The plural of poignancy is poignancies.

Words near poignancy in the dictionary

  1. poietic
  2. poifect
  3. poignance
  4. poignances
  5. poignancies
  6. poignancy
  7. poignant
  8. poignantly
  9. poignard
  10. poignards
  11. poikilitic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: poignancy (page history and authors); मार्मिकता (Hindi) (page history and authors); poignancy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); poignancy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); poignancy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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