Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- the state of being desperate or of having the recklessness of despair.
- the act or fact of despairing; despair.
noun
- desperate recklessness
- the act of despairing or the state of being desperate
mid-14c., from Middle French désperation or directly from Latin desperationem (nominative desperatio) “despair, hopelessness,” noun of action from past participle stem of desperare “lose hope” (see despair (v.)).