Why this word is great
DOLEFULNESS — [Noun] The characteristic of being doleful; a state of sorrow. From Middle English doolfulnes, dolfulnesse, equivalent to doleful ("sorrowful") + -ness (noun-forming suffix indicating state or quality). Unlike "melancholia" (which drapes sadness in introspection or grandeur) or "desolation" (which evokes landscapes stripped bare by loss), dolefulness is the quiet, unadorned weight of sorrow. It is the slump of shoulders under bad news, the slow blink of a dog waiting by a door that will never open again, or the way rain falls on a gravestone long after the mourners have gone home—a sadness so ordinary it barely merits a name, yet so universal it needs none.