#despair
- Hopelessness — A psychological state of profound hopelessness, extreme despair, or total loss of hope; a lack of perspective in the face of a difficult situation. This term, with a strong literary and historical tone, was frequently used in writings from the 18th and 19th centuries, being gradually replaced in the modern language by the word 'disperare'.
- To despair — To completely lose hope, to despair, or to fall into a state of profound hopelessness; to let oneself be overwhelmed by life's difficulties without seeing a way out. It is a historical lexical borrowing, used especially in texts from the Phanariot era and in early ecclesiastical translations.
- Hopelessness — A state of total hopelessness, profound despair, or an overwhelming lack of hope when facing a misfortune or an existential impasse. This abstract noun was used as a perfect synonym for 'apelpisieală' in 18th and 19th-century Romanian literary and legal manuscripts.
- Process of despairing — The act of despairing and its result; the psychological process of losing hope, the onset of hopelessness, or the abandonment of any internal struggle. It represents the noun of action derived from the archaic verb 'apelpisi', completely replaced in modern lexicography by the concept of despair.
- Despairing — Having completely lost hope, driven to despair, or overwhelmed by profound hopelessness; a person who is in a state of total spiritual impasse. As a participle, it represents the state of an individual following the historical process of despairing, replaced in modern Romanian by the adjective 'disperat'.
- Despairing — The feminine form of apelpisit; a woman who has completely lost hope, driven to despair, or profoundly marked by hopelessness. As an adjective, it describes a state, action, or female entity characterized by the total absence of perspective or optimism.