Usually means: Loss of hope or confidence.
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  1. despondency: Merriam-Webster
  2. despondency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. despondency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. despondency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. despondency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Despondency, despondency: Wordnik
  7. despondency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. despondency: Wiktionary
  9. despondency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. despondency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. despondency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Despondency, despondency: Dictionary.com
  13. Despondency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. despondency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. despondency: Rhymezone
  16. despondency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. despondency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. despondency: FreeDictionary.org
  19. despondency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. despondency: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (despondency)

▸ noun:  The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.
▸ noun:  A feeling of depression or disheartenment.

Similar:
despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness, desponding, despair, slough of despond, hopelessness, low spirits, dejection, discouragement, more...

Opposite:
elation, euphoria, delight, joy

Types:
dejection, despair, gloom, glumness, melancholy, sadness, more...

Phrases:
feelings of severe despondency, despondency and irritation, more...

Adjectives:
deep, great, utter, general, hopeless, gloomy, much, profound, extreme, mental, religious

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Similar:
despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness, desponding, despair, slough of despond, hopelessness, low spirits, dejection, discouragement, more...

Opposite:
elation, euphoria, delight, joy

Types:
dejection, despair, gloom, glumness, melancholy, sadness, more...

Phrases:
feelings of severe despondency, despondency and irritation, more...

Adjectives:
deep, great, utter, general, hopeless, gloomy, much, profound, extreme, mental, religious

Colors:
    gray,     charcoal,     pewter,     smoke,     stone, more...



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