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desperation
Overview of noun desperation
The noun desperation has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (4) despair, desperation -- (a state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly; "they were rescued from despair at the last minute")
2. desperation -- (desperate recklessness; "it was a policy of desperation")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun desperation
2 senses of desperation
Sense 1
despair, desperation
=> condition, status
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
desperation
=> recklessness, foolhardiness, rashness
=> unthoughtfulness, thoughtlessness
=> trait
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun desperation
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun desperation
2 senses of desperation
Sense 1
despair, desperation
=> condition, status
Sense 2
desperation
=> recklessness, foolhardiness, rashness
Antonyms of noun desperation
Member Holonyms of noun desperation
Substance Holonyms of noun desperation
Part Holonyms of noun desperation
Member Meronyms of noun desperation
Substance Meronyms of noun desperation
Part Meronyms of noun desperation
Meronyms of noun desperation
Holonyms of noun desperation
Attributes of noun desperation
Derived Forms of noun desperation
1 of 2 senses of desperation
Sense 1
despair, desperation
RELATED TO>(verb) despair#1
=> despair
Domain of noun desperation
Domain Terms of noun desperation
Familiarity of noun desperation
desperation used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun desperation
2 senses of desperation
Sense 1
despair, desperation
> condition, status
=> anchorage
=> health
=> mode
=> niche, ecological niche
=> noise conditions
=> participation, involvement
=> prepossession
=> regularization, regularisation
=> saturation
=> silence
=> situation, position
=> ski conditions
=> nomination
=> standardization, standardisation
=> stigmatism
=> astigmatism, astigmia
=> way
=> circumstance
=> homelessness
=> reinstatement
=> place
=> celibacy
=> virginity
=> innocence
=> purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness
=> guilt, guiltiness
=> encapsulation
=> polarization, polarisation
=> pathological state
=> disorder, upset
=> hyalinization, hyalinisation
=> vacuolization, vacuolisation, vacuolation
=> protuberance
=> curvature
=> psychological state, mental state
=> difficulty
=> improvement, melioration
=> decline, declination
=> ennoblement
=> dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control
=> comfort, comfortableness
=> discomfort, uncomfortableness
=> need, demand
=> fullness
=> emptiness
=> nakedness, nudity, nudeness
=> hairlessness, depilation
=> dishabille, deshabille
=> hopefulness
=> despair, desperation
=> purity, pureness
=> impurity, impureness
=> financial condition, economic condition
=> sanitary condition
=> tilth
=> orderliness, order
=> disorderliness, disorder
=> normality, normalcy
=> abnormality, abnormalcy, abnormal condition
=> lactosuria
=> environmental condition
=> climate, mood
=> atmosphere, ambiance, ambience
=> unsusceptibility, immunity
=> immunity, resistance
=> subservience
=> susceptibility, susceptibleness
=> wetness
=> dryness, waterlessness, xerotes
=> safety
=> danger
=> tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness
=> atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia
=> laxness, laxity
=> repair
=> soundness
=> mutism, muteness
=> eye condition
=> unsoundness
=> impropriety
=> iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark
=> light, illumination
=> malady
=> serration
=> absolution
=> automation
=> brutalization, brutalisation
=> condemnation
=> deification
=> diversification
=> exoneration
=> facilitation
=> frizz
=> fruition
=> hospitalization
=> identification
=> impaction
=> ionization, ionisation
=> irradiation
=> leakiness
=> lubrication
=> mechanization, mechanisation
=> motivation
=> mummification
=> preservation
=> prognathism
=> rustication
=> rustiness
=> scandalization, scandalisation
=> submission
=> urbanization, urbanisation
Sense 2
desperation
> recklessness, foolhardiness, rashness
=> adventurism
=> brashness
=> desperation
Meronyms of noun desperation
2 senses of desperation
Holonyms of noun desperation
Grep of noun desperation
desperation
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