- sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness - the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness"
--1 is a kind of unhappiness
--1 has particulars: mourning, bereavement; poignance, poignancy - mournfulness, sorrowfulness, ruthfulness - a state of gloomy sorrow
--2 is a kind of sorrow
--2 has particulars: woe, woefulness; plaintiveness