disconsolateness
Deep, inconsolable sorrow
Disconsolateness is the state of being beyond comfort or consolation—a profound, inconsolable sadness.
The word carries a literary or formal tone, appearing more often in written than spoken English: The disconsolateness in her eyes told me nothing I said would help.
It suggests grief or dejection so deep that ordinary solace cannot reach it.
State without hope
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- dejectionState of lowness
- wretchednessExtreme unhappiness or distress
- miseryIntense prolonged distress
bleakness · futility · resignation · defeatism · pessimism · discouragement · helplessness · forlornness
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
anguish · loss · grieving · keening · dirge · widowhood · orphaned · condolences
State of lacking companions
- alienationState of being isolated
- abandonmentAct of leaving permanently
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
- solitudeState of being alone
forlornness · lonesomeness · seclusion · detachment · withdrawal · separateness · forsaken · outcast
State of emotional pain
- glumnessState of being dispirited
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- pensivenessReflective, slightly sad mood
- sombernessGrave, serious quality
doldrums · heaviness · woefulness · dolefulness · lugubriousness · moroseness · sullenness · listlessness
hopelessness
State without hope
- despondencyProfound loss of hope
- dejectionState of lowness
- wretchednessExtreme unhappiness or distress
misery · bleakness · futility · resignation · defeatism · pessimism · discouragement · helplessness · forlornness · dejectedness
mourning
Period following loss
- bereavementState following loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
lamentation · anguish · loss · grieving · keening · dirge · widowhood · orphaned · condolences · shiva
loneliness
State of lacking companions
- alienationState of being isolated
- abandonmentAct of leaving permanently
- estrangementEmotional separation between people
solitude · forlornness · lonesomeness · seclusion · detachment · withdrawal · separateness · forsaken · outcast · disconnection
sadness
State of emotional pain
- glumnessState of being dispirited
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- pensivenessReflective, slightly sad mood
somberness · doldrums · heaviness · woefulness · dolefulness · lugubriousness · moroseness · sullenness · listlessness · ennui
disconsolatenessjoy
Intense positive emotion
bliss · elation · ecstasy · jubilation · euphoria
disconsolatenessconsolability
Ability to be soothed
emotional resilience · solace · equanimity · serenity · comfortability
disconsolatenesshopefulness
Expectation of positive outcomes
optimism · hope · sanguineness · buoyancy · sanguinity
console, discomfort, consolation, disconsolate, inconsolable, consolable, disconsolately, unconsoled, reconsolidate