Associations to the word «Ruefulness»
Wiktionary
RUEFULNESS, noun. The property of being rueful.
Dictionary definition
RUEFULNESS, noun. Sadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment; "he drank to drown his sorrows"; "he wrote a note expressing his regret"; "to his rue, the error cost him the game".
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.