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HEARTSICKNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heartsickness mean?
• HEARTSICKNESS (noun)
The noun HEARTSICKNESS has 1 sense:
1. feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
Familiarity information: HEARTSICKNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
despondence; despondency; disconsolateness; heartsickness
Hypernyms ("heartsickness" is a kind of...):
depression (sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy)
Derivation:
heartsick (without or almost without hope)
heartsick (full of sorrow)
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