Synonyms:
wistfulness
Meaning: a sadly pensive longing
Usage examples
Even in his sleep, this gave him an air of wistfulness.
A look of strange wistfulness crept into her eyes as she murmured,--
In this lay the secret of her greatest charm, a youthfulness of the inmost soul, betrayed at times by her face, and a certain tinge of innocent wistfulness in her ideas.
This was the first time they had come together since the afternoon of revelation, and there was a moment of constraint during which Silas tugged at his streaked beard and looked with mournful wistfulness at his son.