poignance

English

Etymology

From poignant +‎ -ance.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɪnjəns/

Noun

poignance (countable and uncountable, plural poignances)

  1. 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:
      Too bad Locke's idea didn't catch on; the thought of measuring things in philosophical feet has an unquestionable poignance.
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