despondency

Noun

Meaning

The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.

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Cheerfulness is not a sin. It drives away weariness, and it is from weariness that despondency comes. Seraphim of Sarov

There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning. Kate Chopin

Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be. Swami Vivekananda

The city overwhelmed our expectations. The Kiplingesque grandeur of Waterloo Station, the Eliotic despondency of the brick row in Chelsea the Dickensian nightmare of fog and sweating pavement and besmirched cornices. John Updike

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. George Eliot

Ours is not a poor country and even though we are now a poor people, there should be no room for the despondency that has settled on large sections of the population. John Kufuor

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