desolateness

noun

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1
as in melancholy

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2
as in bleakness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for desolateness
  1. melancholy
  2. dejection
  3. nothingness
  4. oppression
  5. despair
  6. misery
  7. gloom
  8. desolation
Noun
  • But the Christmas–New Year’s setting adds a nice touch of melancholy to the proceedings.
    Bob Sassone, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
  • But over the course of the pair’s tour of Poland to visit their late grandmother’s ancestral home, Benji’s flippant manner keeps dissolving to reveal internal conflict and profound melancholy.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of melancholy
Noun
  • Just like that, an entire team’s optimism and energy turned into dejection and disbelief.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The day after a high-stakes presidential election usually brings elation on one side and dejection for the other.
    Daniel Wine, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of dejection
Noun
  • Our phones now have hundreds of photos on them and videos of just pure baby nothingness.
    Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Empty space threatens to overwhelm her lattice of pinpricks and sparkles; her granular timbres often seem on the verge of dissolving into nothingness.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of nothingness
Noun
  • The history of Junkanoo shows how marginalized communities’ cultural celebrations have survived in the face of their oppression.
    Sasha C. Wells / Made by History, TIME, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Barbara Smith: One of the things that’s missing from this statement is an analysis of gender and transgender identity and transgender oppression and being gender-nonconforming or nonbinary.
    Jazmine Hughes, Them, 20 Dec. 2024
Definition of oppression
Noun
  • Satan is harsh and hypnotic, romantic and self-pitying in his despair.
    Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The rest of the cast is excellent too, in both the showier roles — Quinto as Mark, plunged into despair; Woodley as Diana, devolving into derangement — and the quieter ones.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 13 Dec. 2024
Definition of despair
Noun
  • There’s a certain irony in the fact that those on the celebrity circuit — who appear to hover above the mundanity and misery of cubicle working and employee dress codes — are embracing this staunch symbol of corporate professionalism.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Living with an ever-present feeling of sadness and misery will break you.
    Terina Allen, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of misery
Noun
  • Facing the inevitable death is not all doom and gloom, that’s what Kim says.
    Kimberly Harms, USA TODAY, 28 Dec. 2024
  • With plummeting temperatures and shorter days, winter can sometimes feel a little doom and gloom.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of gloom
Noun
  • Singing with heartbreaking sweetness of both familiar desolation and fresh hope, Pratt’s voice remains the music’s animating spirit.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Its peaceful stillness and silence can become desolation, and its beautiful bleakness a portent of doom.
    Jody Mamone, Hartford Courant, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of desolation
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