Hypertext Webster Gateway: "despondency"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Despondency \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
despondency
n : feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: {despondence},
{heartsickness}, {disconsolateness}]
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