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Noun sadness has 2 senses

sadness, unhappiness - emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
--₁ is a kind of feeling
Antonyms: happiness
--₁ has particulars:

dolefulness; melancholy; misery; forlornness, loneliness, desolation; weepiness, tearfulness; sorrow; sorrow, regret, rue, ruefulness; cheerlessness, uncheerfulness; depression; downheartedness, low-spiritedness, dispiritedness

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