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Despairing vs Desponding - What's the difference?

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Despairing is a related term of desponding.


As verbs the difference between despairing and desponding

is that despairing is while desponding is .

As an adjective despairing

is feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

As a noun despairing

is a mood or display of despair.

despairing

English

Adjective

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  • Feeling, expressing, or caused by despair; hopeless.

    • Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mood or display of despair.
  • * (Thomas Carlyle)
    • But what things soever passed in him, when he ceased to see it; what ragings and despairings soever Teufelsdrockh's soul was the scene of, he has the goodness to conceal under a quite opaque cover of Silence.

    desponding

    English

    Verb

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