despondence

Questions about despondence

What does despondence mean?

despondence means "feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless".

How many syllables are in despondence?

despondence has 3 syllables and divides as de-spon-dence under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for despondence?

Close synonyms include despondency, heartsickness, disconsolateness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is despondence a common word?

despondence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.