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- Dictionarymourning/ˈmɔːnɪŋ/
noun
- 1. the expression of sorrow for someone's death: "she's still in mourning after the death of her husband" Similar
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State of emotions of a person to whom something irreversible happened that leads to a feeling of sadness or regret; most often occurring e.g. after a beloved one died, or a long relationship split up
Mourning is the expression of an experience that is the consequence of an event in life involving loss, causing grief. It typically occurs as a result of someone's death, often (but not always) someone who was loved, although loss from death is not exclusively the cause of all experience of grief. The word is used to describe a complex of behaviours in which the bereaved participate or are expecte... Wikipedia