self-despair

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From self- +‎ despair.

Noun[edit]

self-despair (uncountable)

  1. Despair about oneself or one's own actions or behaviour. [from 17th c.]
    • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Prelude:
      Her flame […] soared after some illimitable satisfaction, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self.
    • 2007, Alexander Theroux, chapter 45, in Laura Warholic:
      Tripping herself up with sadder and more and more neurotic acts of self-despair.
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