despondency
3 synonyms and 5 antonyms for despondency, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A feeling of having lost hope or confidence.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
heartsickness
despondence
disconsolateness
Synonyms by Meaning
1. noun
A feeling of having lost hope or confidence.
“Not everyone succumbed to such nostalgia and despondency. Some saw the existential threat to Scots as a call to document what remained.”
heartsickness
despondence
disconsolateness
Opposites
Etymology
From Latin dēspondentia, made up of dēspondēns plus -ia; it can also be seen as despondent plus -ency.
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