laughter vs sadness

laughter

noun
  • 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. 

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

sadness

noun
  • The state or emotion of being sad. 

  • An event in one's life that causes sadness. 

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