Difference between Despair and Desperation

DESPAIR vs DESPERATION: NOUN

Synonyms Despondency, Despair, Desperation. Despondency is a loss of hope sufficient to produce a loss of courage and a disposition to relax or relinquish effort, the despondent person tending to sink into spiritless inaction. Despair means a total loss of hope; despondency does not. Despair naturally destroys courage and stops all effort, but may produce a new kind of courage and fierce activity founded upon the sense that there is nothing worse to be feared. In this despair is akin to desperation, which is an active state and always tends to produce a furious struggle against adverse circumstances, even when the situation is utterly hopeless.
That which causes hopelessness; that of which there is no hope.
Hopelessness; a hopeless state; utter lack of hope or expectation.
One despaired of or causing despair.
Complete loss of hope.
A state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly
Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency.
The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well
A state in which all hope is lost or absent
That which is despaired of.

Desperate recklessness
A state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly
The condition of being desperate.
Recklessness arising from despair.
A despairing; hopelessness; despair.
A desperate state of mind, either active or passive; recklessness arising from failure or misfortune; despairing rashness or fury: as, deeds of desperation.
Synonyms See despair.
The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.
A state of despair, or utter hopeless; abandonment of hope; extreme recklessness; reckless fury.
A state in which all hope is lost or absent

To be overcome by a sense of futility or defeat.
To lose all hope.
To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

To cause to despair; deprive of hope.
To give up hope of; lose confidence in.
Abandon hope
Give up hope
Lose heart
Synonyms Despair, Despond. See despond.
To lose hope; be without hope; give up all hope or expectation: followed by of before an object.

Devastation, Dismay, Disappointment, Gloom, Exasperation, Frustration, Misery, Disillusionment, Heartbreak, Helplessness, Anguish, Desolation, Despondency, Hopelessness, Desperation

Impatience, Menopause, Devastation, Heartbreak, Dismay, Distress, Misery, Desolation, Despondency, Anguish, Exasperation, Helplessness, Hopelessness, Frustration, Despair

Desperate, Distress, Dismay, Gloom, Exasperation, Frustration, Misery, Disillusionment, Heartbreak, Helplessness, Anguish, Desolation, Despondency, Hopelessness, Desperation

Dejection, Impatience, Menopause, Heartbreak, Dismay, Distress, Misery, Desolation, Despondency, Anguish, Exasperation, Helplessness, Hopelessness, Frustration, Despair

However, I have abandoned the task in despair.
Please do not despair if more tests come.
Jobs did not wallow in despair for long.
Do not despair, Christ died for the ungodly.
Why are you in despair, O my soul?
All the nuanced strains of joy and despair.
For this reason Christians cannot despair in the face of Christian division, just as they cannot despair in the face of injustice or warfare.
His despair is the despair of thesensitive black ghetto youngster feeling the stifling effect of his environment.
Philosophers have tabbed this age as the age of despair, but we Christians do not despair; we have hope.
They were born for the most part out of a sense of despair, and if not despair then just plain hard work.

Finally, in desperation, we sent him to FFS.
In desperation, I contacted over a dozen attorneys.
South Koreans know this desperation only too well.
Doing this today was a sign of desperation.
How had he reached this level of desperation?
In desperation Martha and Mary send for Jesus.
We ended up at PG retreat in desperation.
Success comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration, and inspiration.
By the way, do never show your desperation.
This artificial desperation reduces Africans to toys, so that in desperation they cry to the West for Aid which entangle them in the process.

Did Shivpal Yadav resort to character assassination of rivals in sheer desperation?
Is David Purdue showing desperation with latest comments towards Stacey Abrams?
What is the MAX version of Iori's Super Desperation Move?
Can Schumacher avoid the trap of desperation and over-driving?
Is Mayawati's EVM tampering claim a sign of desperation?
Why did eighties music have so much desperation behind it?
Why doesn't Cordelia's lance work with desperation?
Is hanging on in quiet desperation the English way?
What are the signs of desperation in a relationship?
What is the desperation phase of gambling addiction?