poignancy
noun
the state or condition of being poignant.
poignancies
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pluralof poignancy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He's looking forward to next season, where he plans to delve more deeply in the character, probing "her pain and poignancies."
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2015
Steele-Perkins is good at little poignancies, the tell-tale details that give the game away, that point out our common fallibilities.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 16, 2010
What is left is an abundant supply of jokes together with jarring poignancies.
From Time Magazine Archive
McGinley began to find her own voice and to extol the pleasures and poignancies of the hearth, Memorial Day parades, the smell of charcoal grills, the damp loafers on the lawn.
From Time Magazine Archive
They will cut themselves with sweet and bitter poignancies of laughter and tears, when the sun shines upon wet forests in the green earth.
From Among Famous Books by John Kelman
