Meanings
nountragicness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state or quality of being tragic.
Those people inclined towards Nietzscheanism (and there were quite a few among Freud's admirers) preferred to speak rather of the “tragicness of psychical life.”
2014, Valentin Voloshinov, Freudianism: A Marxist Critique, Verso Books, →ISBN
Origin
Translations
Dutch tragiek
- tragiekstate or quality of being tragic
Finnish traagisuus
- traagisuusstate or quality of being tragic
German Tragik
- Tragikstate or quality of being tragic
Portuguese tragicidade
- tragicidadestate or quality of being tragic
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APA
tragicness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tragicness
MLA
“tragicness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tragicness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tragicness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tragicness.
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