Foreboding vs Despair - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between foreboding and despair

is that foreboding is a sense of evil to come while despair is loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

is that foreboding is while despair is (obsolete) to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.

is of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

* forboding (much less commonly used)

(en noun)

A sense of evil to come.

* 1956 — , The City and the Stars , p 41

A sense of foreboding , the like of which he had never known before, hung heavily on him.

An evil omen.

* augury

(en adjective)

Of ominous significance; serving as an ill omen; foretelling of harm or difficulty.

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(en verb)

(obsolete) To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.

* Milton

I would not despair the greatest design that could be attempted.

(obsolete) To cause to despair.

To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.

* Bible, 2 Corinthians i. 8

We despaired even of life.

Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.

He turned around in despair , aware that he was not going to survive

That which is despaired of.

* desperation * despondency * hopelessness

* aspired * diapers * praised