Meaning of DESPONDENCY
| Pronunciation: | | di'spândunsee
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| | Definition: | | [n] feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless |
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| | Synonyms: | | despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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| | See Also: | | blue devils, depression | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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