Solace vs Sorrow - What's the difference?

In intransitive terms the difference between solace and sorrow

is that solace is to take comfort; to be cheered while sorrow is to feel or express grief.

is that solace is comfort or consolation in a time of distress while sorrow is unhappiness, woe.

is that solace is to give solace to; comfort; cheer; console while sorrow is to feel or express grief.

Comfort or consolation in a time of distress.

You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace .

A source of comfort or consolation.

* Rambler

The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.

* comfort * consolation * relief * support

* solaceful * solacement

(solac)

To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.

To allay or assuage.

To take comfort; to be cheered.

* 1593 , , IV. v. 48:

But one thing to rejoice and solace in, / And cruel death hath catched it from my sight.

(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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