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Grimness vs Sadness - What's the difference?

grimness | sadness |

As nouns the difference between grimness and sadness

is that grimness is the characteristic or quality of being grim while sadness is (uncountable) the state or emotion of being sad.

grimness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The characteristic or quality of being grim

    • 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