Definition of despondence:
despair, desperateness, funk, hopelessness, hope, dejection, disconsolateness, doldrums, dolefulness, happy, sadness, downheartedness, despond, glumness, dumps, blues, mope, desperation, dysphoria, gloom, heavy-heartedness, melancholy, mournfulness, feelings, despondency, depression, heartsickness.
discontentment (part of speech: noun)
At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification.- "Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus", Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley.
- "The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852", Ben Casseday.
- "The Ranch at the Wolverine", B. M. Bower.