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Sadness vs Desolation - What's the difference?

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Sadness is a related term of desolation.


As nouns the difference between sadness and desolation

is that sadness is (uncountable) the state or emotion of being sad while desolation is desolation.

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

    desolation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
  • The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness]]; destitution; [[gloom, gloominess.
  • A place or country wasted and forsaken.
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