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Madness vs Sadness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between madness and sadness

is that madness is the state of being mad; insanity; mental disease while sadness is the state or emotion of being sad.

madness

English

Noun

  • The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
  • rash folly

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * sanity

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    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