Synonyms:
poignance, poignancy
Meaning: a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow; "a moment of extraordinary poignancy"
Usage examples
Child as she was, she felt the poignancy of her friend's grief, and with the infinite tact of her girlish tenderness, she did not try to pry into it, but was ready to efface herself.
At the second bar of the 'Lost Chord' the awful pain that was gradually gnawing away at his vitals seemed to lose its poignancy in the face of the greater suffering, and physical relief was instant.