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Sadness vs Listlessness - What's the difference?

sadness | listlessness |

As nouns the difference between sadness and listlessness

is that sadness is (uncountable) the state or emotion of being sad while listlessness is the state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.

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

    listlessness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The state of being listless; indifference; lethargy.
    • {{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , But every thing must have an end. A motion made by this angelic youth, in the listlessness of going off sleep, replac'd his shirt and the bed-cloaths in a posture that shut up that treasure from longer view.}}