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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Despondency \De*spond"en*cy\, n.
     The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of
     effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk


           in despondency.                          --Macaulay.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  despondency
       n : 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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