disconsolation
- noun
- /ˌdɪs.kənˈsoʊ.leɪ.ʃən/
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desconsuelo
- Despite her friends' efforts to cheer her up, a lingering disconsolation remained after the sad news.
Examples
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His constant feeling of disconsolation after losing his job made it hard for him to enjoy his favorite activities.
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The alienation the secretive Mendez feels from his family is palpable throughout, adding to Argo's general sense of disconsolation.
Blog text (15) -
Disconsolation drifts out of the Upper East Side, in some river of chance, drifts neglected like waste, until it lands somewhere else.
Fiction book (1994) -
After the breakup, she fell into a deep state of disconsolation and found it difficult to smile again.
Synonyms
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3.5
A complete loss of hope
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8.3
A strong feeling of sadness and loss of hope after something bad
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7.6
A feeling of deep sadness and emptiness after being left alone
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8.8
A feeling of deep sadness and no hope
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9.9
A deep sadness that lasts a long time and is hard to escape
Unable to be comforted after a sad loss
A deep sadness that nothing can comfort
Antonyms
How Sad
Surface Forms
Morphology
disconsolation = disconsole (semi-transparent) = dis + console + ation
Once the rare verb 'disconsole' is known, adding '-ation' straightforwardly forms a noun for the resulting state or process.
Etymology
Disconsolation comes from the parts dis- and consolation, where dis- means 'not' and consolation, the same root as console, means 'comfort'. So disconsolation is the feeling of not being able to be comforted, when nothing seems to make you feel better.