Desperation vs Semidesperation - What's the difference?
desperation | semidesperation |
The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
A state approaching desperation.
* 1858 , Biddulph Warner, The coquette (page 6)
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=June 7, author=Emily Bazelon, title=The Self-Employed Depression, work=New York Times
, passage=The call of semidesperation via a high-tech status symbol is an emblem of the gap between the past and the present for many of urban America’s self-employed. }}
As nouns the difference between desperation and semidesperation
is that desperation is the act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope while semidesperation is a state approaching desperation.desperation
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