'Despondence' definitions:
Definition of 'despondence'
(from WordNet)
noun
Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: despondency, despondence, heartsickness, disconsolateness]
Definition of 'Despondence'
From: GCIDE
- Despondence \De*spond"ence\, n. Despondency. [1913 Webster]
- The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness [and] saunter about with looks of despondence. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]