Usually means: Loss of hope or courage.
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  1. despondence: Merriam-Webster
  2. despondence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despondence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. despondence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. despondence: Vocabulary.com
  6. despondence: Wordnik
  7. despondence: Wiktionary
  8. Despondence, despondence: Dictionary.com
  9. despondence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Despondence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. despondence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. despondence: Rhymezone
  13. Despondence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. despondence: FreeDictionary.org
  15. despondence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. despondence: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. despondence: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  The state of being downcast or despondent.

Similar:
despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness, downcastness, downness, dejectedness, despairingness, dejection, downheartedness, depressiveness, more...

Opposite:
hope, optimism, cheerfulness, positivity

Types:
dejection, despair, gloom, glumness, melancholy, sadness, more...

Adjectives:
deep, silent, utter, motionless, such, great, hopeless, gloomy, irrational, national, previous
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Similar:
despondency, disconsolateness, heartsickness, downcastness, downness, dejectedness, despairingness, dejection, downheartedness, depressiveness, more...

Opposite:
hope, optimism, cheerfulness, positivity

Types:
dejection, despair, gloom, glumness, melancholy, sadness, more...

Adjectives:
deep, silent, utter, motionless, such, great, hopeless, gloomy, irrational, national, previous



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