feeling vs sadness

sadness vs feeling

feeling and sadness both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
feeling	Yes	No	No	No
sadness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sadness is a hyponym of feeling; that is, sadness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than feeling:

feeling: the experiencing of affective and emotional states
sadness: emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being

Other hyponyms of feeling include affect, emotion, thing, glow, faintness, soul, soulfulness, passion, passionateness, sentiment, complex, ambivalence, ambivalency, apathy, desire, sex, sexual urge, pleasance, pleasure, pain, painfulness, pang, stab, twinge, liking, dislike, gratitude, ingratitude, ungratefulness, unconcern, shame, pride, pridefulness, humbleness, humility, amazement, astonishment, devastation, expectation, levity, gravity, solemnity, sensitiveness, sensitivity, agitation, calmness, bravery, fearlessness, happiness, unhappiness, hope, despair, affection, affectionateness, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness, humor, humour, mood, temper, fellow feeling, sympathy, enthusiasm, anchorage, disinterest.

feeling (noun)	sadness (noun)
the experiencing of affective and emotional states	the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness
an intuitive understanding of something	emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
a physical sensation that you experience	the state of being sad
the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin
a vague idea in which some confidence is placed
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

Difference between feeling and sadness

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