'mournfulness' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is the noun form of the word 'mournful', which means feeling or expressing grief or sadness. Example: The mournfulness in her eyes was evident as she bid farewell to her beloved friend.
Meynell's verse is marked by its simple vocabulary and religious sincerity, and it communicates a gentle mournfulness and a sense of the passing of time.
In medieval England the children were reminded of the mournfulness of the day by being whipped in bed in the morning; this custom survived into the 17th century.
The Civil War begins, crests, and reaches a disastrous conclusion with the destruction of Atlanta, and mournfulness holds sway through the middle of the epic.
No actual thoughts, only feelings: mournfulness, woe, and, finally, a spark of defiant anger.
"That vague, visceral mournfulness, that sympathy felt for the doomed flesh as for the frosted flower, settled on the mind steadily during the days that passed after the return from Nuremberg, as the executions grew nearer," West writes.
The result is a shift in tone away from Springfield's approach (which used false cheer to suggest a deep mournfulness) toward something sparser and bleaker.
The book proceeds from terrifying grimness, through lonely mournfulness, until, midway, a morbid silliness begins sporadically to assert itself, like someone, exhausted by bad news, hysterically succumbing to giggles at a funeral.
Taylor's singing has changed over the years, of course, but the mournfulness and the unadorned clarity are still prominent.
Then he turns, in closeup, to confront the camera, and reveals a long visage creased in delight, with a cigarette stuck in the smile — half Pulcinella, half deposed emperor, already tasting the mournfulness that rises like smoke from every explosion of fun.
Because many of his songs are composed in minor keys they convey an underlying mournfulness, a sense that the game may have been lost.
Ms. Anderson, Mr. Reed and Mr. Zorn's set focused on Mr. Zorn's eloquent and expressive alto saxophone playing, which shifted from mournfulness to lurid rage.
