Difference between Heartsickness and Despondency

What is the difference between Heartsickness and Despondency?

Heartsickness as a noun is the condition of being heartsick while Despondency as a noun is the loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.

Heartsickness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The condition of being heartsick

Despondency

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The loss of hope or confidence; despair or dejection.A feeling of depression or disheartenment.

Example sentence: I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.

We hope you now know whether to use Heartsickness or Despondency in your sentence.

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