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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Desperation \Des'per*a"tion\, noun [L. desperatio: cf. OF. desperation.]
1. The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
This desperation of success chills all our industry. --Hammond.
2. A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
In the desperation of the moment, the officers even tried to cut their way through with their swords. --W. Irving.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
desperation
noun
1: a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute" [syn: {despair}]
2: desperate recklessness; "it was a policy of desperation"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "desperation": acedia, anguish, anxiety, anxiousness, apathy, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, defeatism, dejection, depression, despair, desperateness, despondency, disconsolateness, discouragement, distress, foolhardiness, forlornness, gloom, heedlessness, hopelessness, impetuosity, imprudence, melancholy, misery, no exit, no way, no way out, pessimism, rashness, recklessness, sloth, sorrow, wretchedness
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