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HEARTSICKNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless

Synonyms:

despondence; despondency; disconsolateness; heartsickness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("heartsickness" is a kind of...):

depression (sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)

Derivation:

heartsick (without or almost without hope)

heartsick (full of sorrow)

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