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downheartedness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of downheartedness

a state or spell of low spirits

his downheartedness lasted until another girl came along and won his heart

Synonyms of downheartedness

blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolation, despond, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, melancholy, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, oppression, sadness, sorrowfulness, unhappiness

Words Related to downheartedness

melancholia, self-pity

anguish, dolor, grief, mourning, somberness, sorrow, woefulness

agony, distress, pain

misery, woe, wretchedness

discouragement, disheartenment

despair, desperation, hopelessness, self-despair

boredom, ennui, tedium

dismalness, drear, morbidness, moroseness, morosity

Near Antonyms of downheartedness

gaiety (also gayety), gayness, glee, gleefulness, humor, jollity, joviality, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, mirthfulness

cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, hopefulness, optimism, sunniness

content, contentedness, contentment, satisfaction

delight, gratification

Antonyms of downheartedness

bliss, blissfulness, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, happiness, heaven, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, rapturousness

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