"poignancy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: poignancies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} poignancy (usually uncountable, plural poignancies)
  1. The quality of being poignant Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (the quality of being poignant): sattuvuus (Finnish), kipeys (Finnish), pistävyys (Finnish), poignance [feminine] (French), Schärfe [feminine] (German), Schmerzlichkeit [feminine] (German), patetismo [masculine] (Spanish)

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