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despair

feeling that there is no hope and that you can do nothing to improve a difficult or worrying situation
Event negative_emotion Q1747066
despair
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despair

Summary

despair has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1]

Key Facts

  • despair's physically interacts with is recorded as Anger of God in Islam[2].
  • despair is a type of sadness[3].
  • despair is part of theory of emotion[4].
  • despair is part of psychological terminology[5].
  • despair's Commons category is recorded as Despair[6].
  • despair is the opposite of hope[7].
  • despair's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM_000030[8].
  • despair's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MP_0002573[9].
  • despair's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000573[10].
  • despair's P14439 is recorded as 000826[11].

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Context

Part of include theory of emotion[4], a psychological theory[12] and psychological terminology[5].

Why It Matters

despair has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[1] despair is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Equivalent class → http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM_000030, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MP_0002573, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NBO_0000573
    Subclass of → sadness
    Jstor topic id (archived) → despair
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1709]]: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/MFOEM_000030"
  2. 15w ago · Mullanur · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id → memory-alpha:Despair
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P6262]]: memory-alpha:Despair"
  3. 16w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → —
    Part of → theory of emotion, psychological terminology
    Physically interacts with → Anger of God in Islam
    Instance of → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007550435705171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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