What is "disconsolateness"

Disconsolate \Dis*con"so*late\, a. [LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- + consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See Console, v. t.]

1. Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.

   One morn a Peri at the gate Of Eden stood disconsolate.
   --Moore.

   The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh, Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan.
   --Dryden.

2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights.
   --Ray.

   Syn: Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy. -- Dis*con"so*late*ly, adv. -- Dis*con"so*late*ness, n.

n. (context uncountable English) The state of being disconsolate; gloom.

n. feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: despondency, despondence, heartsickness]