despondency Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
    disconsolateness; heartsickness; despondence.

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De*spond"en*cy noun
Definitions
  1. 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.

Webster 1913