Sorrow vs Betrayal - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sorrow and betrayal

is that sorrow is unhappiness, woe while betrayal is the act of betraying.

is to feel or express grief.

(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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(en noun)

the act of betraying

* perfidy * treachery * treason