poignance
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poignance (countable and uncountable, plural poignances)
- Poignancy; the quality or state of being poignant. [from 17th c.]
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1016:
- The objects themselves might have come from some Stone Age grave so remote did they seem: yet they had poignance.
- 1988 August 19, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Too bad Locke's idea didn't catch on; the thought of measuring things in philosophical feet has an unquestionable poignance.