Hypertext Webster Gateway: "despondence"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Despondence \De*spond"ence\, n.
Despondency.
The people, when once infected, lose their relish for
happiness [and] saunter about with looks of
despondence. --Goldsmith.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
despondence
n : feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: {despondency},
{heartsickness}, {disconsolateness}]
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