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Grieving vs Sadness - What's the difference?

grieving | sadness | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between grieving and sadness

is that grieving is an act or instance of grieving while sadness is the state or emotion of being sad.

As a verb grieving

is present participle of lang=en.

grieving

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act or instance of grieving.

    • Anagrams

    *

    sadness

    English

    (wikipedia sadness)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
  • (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.
    • She has experienced many sadnesses in her forty years.

    Synonyms

    * (state of being sad) forlornness, melancholy * (event causing sadness) misfortune, woe