About The Word Despondency
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Despondency
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What's The Definition Of Despondency?
[n] feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
Synonyms | Synonyms for Despondency: despondence | disconsolateness | heartsickness Related Terms | Find terms related to Despondency: acedia | apathy | blank despondency | cave of despair | cave of Trophonius | death wish | dejectedness | dejection | depression | despair | desperateness | desperation | despondentness | disconsolateness | discouragement | disheartenment | dispiritedness | down trip | downcastness | downer | downheartedness | drooping spirits | forlornness | heartlessness | hopelessness | low spirits | lowness | lowness of spirit | malaise | no exit | no way | no way out | oppression | pessimism | Schmerz | self-destructive urge | sinking heart | sloth | Slough of Despond | spiritlessness | suicidal despair | taedium vitae | weariness of life See Also | blue devils | depression Despondency In Webster's Dictionary \De*spond"en*cy\, n.
The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of
effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk
in despondency. --Macaulay.
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