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Hardship vs Sadness - What's the difference?

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Hardship is a synonym of sadness.


As nouns the difference between hardship and sadness

is that hardship is (countable or uncountable) difficulty or trouble; hard times while sadness is (uncountable) the state or emotion of being sad.

hardship

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (countable or uncountable) Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
    • He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

    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