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Definition of Heartsickness
1. Noun. Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless.
Exact synonyms: Despondence, Despondency, Disconsolateness
Generic synonyms: Depression
Derivative terms: Despond, Despondent, Despond, Despondent, Disconsolate, Heartsick, Heartsick
Generic synonyms: Depression
Derivative terms: Despond, Despondent, Despond, Despondent, Disconsolate, Heartsick, Heartsick
Definition of Heartsickness
1. Noun. The condition of being heartsick ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Heartsickness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heartsickness
Literary usage of Heartsickness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brazilian Colonization, from an European Point of View by Jacaré Assu (1873)
"forget the hunger and heartsickness of the victims, the dead that in their poor
way likewise enrich her soil. In the new element thus acquired, ..."
2. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1895)
"But we need not harry the romantic historian, who so pleasantly gives us an
account of human progress which we can contemplate without heartsickness, ..."
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