mourning vs sadness

mourning

noun
  • Feeling or expressing sorrow over someone's death. 

  • The traditional clothes worn by those who mourn (in Western societies, typically coloured black). 

  • The act of expressing or feeling sorrow or regret; lamentation. 

  • Drapes or coverings associated with mourning. 

sadness

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

  • The state or emotion of being sad. 

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