laughter vs sorrow

laughter

noun
  • The sound of laughing, produced by air so expelled; any similar sound. 

  • A movement (usually involuntary) of the muscles of the laughing face, particularly of the lips, and of the whole body, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs. 

sorrow

noun
  • unhappiness, woe 

  • (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness. 

verb
  • To feel grief over; to mourn, regret. 

  • To feel or express grief. 

How often have the words laughter and sorrow occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )