Sorrow vs Lamentation - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sorrow and lamentation

is that sorrow is (uncountable) unhappiness, woe while lamentation is the act of lamenting.

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 lamenting.

A sorrowful cry; a lament.

Specifically, mourning.

lamentatio, (part of) a liturgical Bible text (from the book of Job) and its musical settings, usually in the plural; hence, any dirge

A group of swans.

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