tristesse en · NOUN
Etymology
From Middle English trestesse, tristes, tristesce, tristesse, tristice, from Middle French tristesse.
Meanings
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(literary, uncountable) sadness
The robot let out a long heartfelt sigh of impassioned tristesse and sank reluctantly away from the ceiling.
1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 52:“The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.”
2007 January 14, Liesl Schillinger, quoting Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, in New York Times: