Despondence synonyms
dĭ-spŏn'dəns
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The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
A feeling of depression or disheartenment.
The state or quality of being desperate.
Complete loss of hope.
A musical form, African-American in origin, generally featuring an eight-bar or twelve-bar structure and using the blues scale.
Evacuation of the intestinal tract; defecation.
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(Psychology) in psychotherapy and psychiatry, a state of mind producing serious, long-term lowering of enjoyment of life or inability to visualize a happy future
The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
A state of feeling unwell or unhappy; a feeling of emotional and mental discomfort and suffering from restlessness, malaise, depression or anxiety.
A state of severe depression.
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Gloom is defined as darkness or a dark and gloomy place, or it is defined as a state of being depressed and in a bad mood.
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
(Obs.) Black bile: in medieval times considered to be one of the four humors of the body, to come from the spleen or kidneys, and to cause gloominess, irritability, or depression
A dull, spiritless person.
The property of being mournful.
The feeling of not being happy
hope (related)
(Uncountable) The belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
happy (related)
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
The condition of being heartsick
(Uncountable) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
(Archaic) Despondency.
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