Wistfulness is an English word with synonyms like longing or yearning. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Wistfulness in a sentence
Wistfulness meaning
The state or characteristic of being wistful.
Using Wistfulness
- The main meaning on this page is: The state or characteristic of being wistful.
- Useful related words include: longing, yearning, hungriness.
Context around Wistfulness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Wistfulness
- In this selection, "wistfulness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, poignant and tremendous stand out and add context to how "wistfulness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a poignant wistfulness the regional and book s wistfulness. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "wistfulness" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with wistfulness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
His departure has left us with tremendous wistfulness and sorrow,” she wrote. (12 words)
Yet there was more than a sense of wistfulness about times gone by. (13 words)
Both entertaining and laced with a poignant wistfulness, the regional co-production features some of the director’s longtime collaborators in the cast and crew. (25 words)
On the few occasions Diana did talk about being Queen, it was either accompanied by gales of laughter at such a preposterous idea or a wistfulness at the prospect of what might have been: not least wearing what she called ‘all those Cinderella dresses’. (44 words)
The show takes the somewhat nebulous events of the book and, while still trafficking in plenty of flashy self-referential effects, presents a more conventional, linear plot with a jokey, sardonic style that replaces the book’s wistfulness. (38 words)
It was his wistfulness for his small Southern hometown that inspired “Home,” a production of the celebrated Negro Ensemble Company that opened at the St. Marks Playhouse in Manhattan six years later before moving to Broadway. (36 words)
Example sentences (6)
On the few occasions Diana did talk about being Queen, it was either accompanied by gales of laughter at such a preposterous idea or a wistfulness at the prospect of what might have been: not least wearing what she called ‘all those Cinderella dresses’.
Both entertaining and laced with a poignant wistfulness, the regional co-production features some of the director’s longtime collaborators in the cast and crew.
It was his wistfulness for his small Southern hometown that inspired “Home,” a production of the celebrated Negro Ensemble Company that opened at the St. Marks Playhouse in Manhattan six years later before moving to Broadway.
The show takes the somewhat nebulous events of the book and, while still trafficking in plenty of flashy self-referential effects, presents a more conventional, linear plot with a jokey, sardonic style that replaces the book’s wistfulness.
His departure has left us with tremendous wistfulness and sorrow,” she wrote.
Yet there was more than a sense of wistfulness about times gone by.