Sadness vs Sorrow - What's the difference?

In uncountable terms the difference between sadness and sorrow

is that sadness is the state or emotion of being sad while sorrow is unhappiness, woe.

is that sadness is an event in one's life that causes sadness while sorrow is usually in plural An instance or cause of unhappiness.

to feel or express grief.

(wikipedia sadness)

(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.

* (state of being sad) forlornness, melancholy * (event causing sadness) misfortune, woe

(uncountable) unhappiness, woe

* Rambler

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment.

(countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.

Parting is such sweet sorrow .

(en verb)

To feel or express grief.

* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 424:

‘Sorrow not, sir,’ says he, ‘like those without hope.’

To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

*, II.12:

It is impossible to make a man naturally blind, to conceive that he seeth not; impossible to make him desire to see, and sorrow his defect.

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