Wailing, balling, sobbing, and weeping exist along a spectrum where weeping is the starting point.

“Because I think I wailing is if we're talking about being in tears, I think weeping is the beginning of the highway. The highway toward you're falling apart. Weeping is is the beginning of that. I think it goes weeping, sobbing, balling, wailing.”

Weeping is a more powerful and significant emotional state than sobbing.

“Weeping has an emotional level to it that sobbing does not.”