despondency Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
disconsolateness; heartsickness; despondence.
WordNet
De*spond"en*cy noun
Definitions
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.
