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noun

Utter lack of hope: despair, desperateness, despond, despondence, despondency, hopelessness. See hope/despair.

Definition: hopelessness
Antonyms: confidence, contentment, security

n

Definition: rashness
Antonyms: calm, cautiousness, collectedness, peace, peacefulness

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Quotes:

"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman." - Oscar Wilde

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Henry David Thoreau

"My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate." - Willem De Kooning

"There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime." - Victor Hugo

"Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention." - Doug Horton

"Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius." - Benjamin Disraeli

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Desperation is an emotional state in which a person feels a situation to be hopeless and without satisfactory options. Decisions made in desperation may be more rash, impulsive, and inappropriate than those made in a rational frame of mind. Desperation can refer to:

• Panic

In literature:

• Desperation (novel), a 1996 Stephen King novel set in the fictional town of Desperation, Nevada

In film:

• Stephen King's Desperation (film), a 2006 TV movie based on King's novel

In music:

• Desperation Band
• Desperation (desperation album)
• Desperation Squad, a rock and roll band from Pomona, California.
• Desperation Records, a record label by Barenaked Ladies
• Like a Corpse standing in Desperation, the first box set by Dark Wave band Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows

In gaming:

• Desperation Attack, a video game move

Other

• Omorashi, a fetishism sometimes referred to in the Western world as desperation fetishism

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Common misspelling(s) of desperation

• despiration