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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
Baruch Spinoza

Meaning of "despondency" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DESPONDENCY

despondency  [dɪˈspɒndənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DESPONDENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Despondency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DESPONDENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

despondency

Depression (mood)

Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings and sense of well-being. Depressed people can feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, worried, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable, hurt, or restless. They may lose interest in activities that once were pleasurable, experience loss of appetite or overeating, have problems concentrating, remembering details, or making decisions, and may contemplate, attempt, or commit suicide. Insomnia, excessive sleeping, fatigue, loss of energy, or aches, pains, or digestive problems may also be present. Depressed mood is not always a psychiatric disorder. It may also be a normal reaction to certain life events, a symptom of some medical conditions, or a side effect of some drugs or medical treatments. Depressed mood is also a primary or associated feature of certain psychiatric syndromes such as clinical depression.

Definition of despondency in the English dictionary

The definition of despondency in the dictionary is a feeling of hopelessness and unhappiness about a seemingly insurmountable problem; dejection.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DESPONDENCY


abundancy
əˈbʌndənsɪ
ascendancy
əˈsɛndənsɪ
ascendency
əˈsɛndənsɪ
co-dependency
ˌkəʊdɪˈpɛndənsɪ
co-respondency
ˌkəʊrɪˈspɒndənsɪ
correspondency
ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndənsɪ
countertendency
ˈkaʊntəˌtendənsɪ
dependancy
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
dependency
dɪˈpɛndənsɪ
impendency
ɪmˈpendənsɪ
independency
ˌɪndɪˈpɛndənsɪ
intendancy
ɪnˈtɛndənsɪ
interdependency
ˌɪntədɪˈpɛndənsɪ
pendency
ˈpɛndənsɪ
redundancy
rɪˈdʌndənsɪ
resplendency
rɪˈsplɛndənsɪ
respondency
rɪˈspɒndənsɪ
superintendency
ˌsuːpərɪnˈtɛndənsɪ
tendency
ˈtɛndənsɪ
transcendency
trænˈsɛndənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DESPONDENCY

despiteous
despiteously
despoil
despoiler
despoiling
despoilment
despoliation
despond
despondence
despondent
despondently
despondingly
despot
despotat
despotic
despotical
despotically
despoticalness
despotism
despotocracy

WORDS THAT END LIKE DESPONDENCY

agency
ardency
bearish tendency
cadency
central tendency
co-presidency
coincidency
confidency
decadency
high-dependency
impudency
Militant Tendency
precedency
presidency
pudency
residency
revolving presidency
Ross Dependency
stridency
subsidency
vice-presidency

Synonyms and antonyms of despondency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «DESPONDENCY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «despondency» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of despondency

Translation of «despondency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DESPONDENCY

Find out the translation of despondency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of despondency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «despondency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

沮丧
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desaliento
570 millions of speakers

English

despondency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निराशा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اليأس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

уныние
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desânimo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হতাশা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

abattement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kegelisahan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Verzagtheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

落胆
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

낙담
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepenak
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chán nản
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விரக்தியில்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निराशा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

moral bozukluğu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

abbattimento
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przygnębienie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зневіру
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

deznădejde
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

απελπισία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

moedeloosheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

förtvivlan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

motløshet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of despondency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DESPONDENCY»

The term «despondency» is regularly used and occupies the 105.233 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DESPONDENCY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «despondency» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «despondency» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about despondency

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5 QUOTES WITH «DESPONDENCY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word despondency.
1
George Eliot
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.
2
Eric Kandel
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.
3
John Agyekum Kufuor
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.
4
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
5
Baruch Spinoza
The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DESPONDENCY»

Discover the use of despondency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to despondency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Anatomy of Despondency: European Socio-Cultural ...
In a text-orientated approach, this study presents a rich mosaic depicting a tradition of European socio-cultural criticism since the French Revolution.
Jacob Teunis Harskamp, 2011
2
Despondency and Other Poems
This collection of poems brings forth the poetic genius of Anne Bronte. it comprises of beautiful pieces like her meditations at different occasions, The songs of merriment, prayers and poems addressed To The people she admired.
Anne Brontë, 2009
3
From despondency to ambition: women's changing perceptions ...
This book is about poor women and whether they see self-employment as a desirable and feasible solution to the economic and social difficulties they find themselves locked into.
Uschi Kraus-Harper, 1998
4
Reasons Against National Despondency: In Refutation of Mr. ...
In Refutation of Mr. Erskine's View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War : with Some Remarks Upon the Supposed Scarcity of Specie. A REFUTATION, &Ye. &Fc. r HE appearance of a book written by Mr. Erikine, has ...
‎1797
5
Spiritual Despondency and Temptations
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Michel Jacques, 2009
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Sound Sentiment: An Essay on the Musical Emotions, Including ...
Despondency is a defect in people, and my expressing despondency is logically dependent upon my being despondent. But music expressive of despondency is not despondent music, in the sense in which a person can be said to be ...
Peter Kivy, 1989
7
Spiritual Despondency and Temptations
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Jacques Michel, 2012
8
Wellman's Miscellany
Genius is peculiarly exposed to despondency ; education seems often to induce it. Another remarkable characteristic of this evil is that it is intermittent. It is not exactly, like mysterious agues and fevers, a periodical visitant, coining at intervals of ...
9
An essay on morbid sensibility of the stomach and bowels: as ...
as the proximate cause, or characteristic condition of indigestion, nervous irritability, mental despondency, hypochondriasis, &c. &c. : to which are added, observations on the diseases and regimen of invalids, on their return from hot and ...
James Johnson, 1827
10
Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific
On the anthropology of modernity, or, some triumphs of culture over despondency theory Marshall Sahlins In the late 18th century, at the height of the European Enlightenment, the French philosophers invented the word 'civilisation' to refer to ...
Antony Hooper, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DESPONDENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term despondency is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Summer Budget 2015: Parliamentary sketch
As George Osborne reached the climax of his marathon Budget speech, shell-shocked Labour MPs sat slumped in despondency barely able to ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Gallant Played a Show for 10 People, But Two of Them Helped …
But while his time working angles in the east coast music industry had thrust Gallant into despondency, L.A. would offer the catharsis and ... «L.A. Weekly, Jul 15»
3
24 actors who played convincing siblings
... come close to doing just that in The Skeleton Twins, a recent Sundance dramedy about estranged siblings reunited by mutual despondency. «A.V. Club DC, Jul 15»
4
Why we should use social media more responsibly
We have all the right to freely express ourselves but we have no right to create anarchy and despondency which is against the laws of natural ... «New Vision, Jul 15»
5
Fan Made Toy Story Modern Trailer Brings Out The Emotional Big …
There is hardly any reference to the despondency and insecurity that would later befall both Woody and Buzz. Of course, this isn't surprising ... «moviepilot.com, Jul 15»
6
History is Fast Approaching
The 'deep valleys and high peaks' in the Shiller PE ratio are a reflection of social mood — despondency to euphoria. When investors see ... «Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition, Jul 15»
7
Never in 13 years has the establishment of a government been so …
Instead of making the appointment and seeking out a new solution, I think his goal is to foster despondency and increase polarization.” Another ... «BGN NEWS, Jul 15»
8
Let's all have a good cry with Laura Bassett
To make sure you're prepared for the depths of despondency of this interview, we have employed The Early Lead's cry-o-meter. Let each gif ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
9
Indian cricket can't duck Lalit Modi's bouncers
When they do well, the country gets euphoric and when they falter despondency sets in. Then there are people who are called administrators, ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
10
Apple Watch Sales Plummet 90% Since Launch
The Apple Watch has collected very polarizing reviews ranging from praise to downright despondency, but has generally failed to be a product ... «Techaeris, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Despondency [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/despondency>. Apr 2024 ».
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