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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Despondency \De*spond"en*cy\, noun 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) 2.0 [wn]:
despondency
noun: feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: {despondence}, {heartsickness}, {disconsolateness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "despondency": Schmerz, Slough of Despond, acedia, apathy, blank despondency, cave of Trophonius, cave of despair, death wish, dejectedness, dejection, depression, despair, desperateness, desperation, despondentness, disconsolateness, discouragement, disheartenment, dispiritedness, down trip, downcastness, downer, downheartedness, drooping spirits, forlornness, heartlessness, hopelessness, low spirits, lowness, lowness of spirit, malaise, no exit, no way, no way out, oppression, pessimism, self-destructive urge, sinking heart, sloth, spiritlessness, suicidal despair, taedium vitae, weariness of life
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