4
mournfulness(noun, happy, feelings, melancholy, sadness)
3
despair(noun, distress, depression, melancholy, hope)
3
desperateness(noun, sadness, hope, despair, despondency)
3
discouragement(noun, distress, depression, melancholy, sadness)
3
dispiritedness(noun, melancholy, sadness, gloom, doldrums)
3
doldrums(noun, distress, happy, depression, feelings)
3
dumps(noun, happy, feelings, melancholy, sadness)
3
sorrow(noun, melancholy, sadness, misery, unhappiness)
3
wretchedness(noun, despair, despondency, desperation, discontentment)
2
dejectedness(noun, sadness, misery, unhappiness)
2
desolation(distress, depression, melancholy, sadness, gloom)
2
discontent(noun, discontentment)
2
disgruntlement(noun, discontentment)
2
disheartenment(noun, sadness, despair, despondency, desperation)
2
dysphoria(noun, happy, feelings, melancholy, sadness)
2
ennui(noun, discontentment)
2
forlornness(melancholy, sadness, gloom, despair, despondency)
2
joylessness(noun, discontentment)
2
miserableness
2
mope(noun, happy, feelings, melancholy, sadness)
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