#despairing

• Process of despairing — The act of despairing and its result; the psychological process of losing hope, the onset of hopelessness, or the abandonment of any internal struggle. It represents the noun of action derived from the archaic verb 'apelpisi', completely replaced in modern lexicography by the concept of despair.
• Despairing — Having completely lost hope, driven to despair, or overwhelmed by profound hopelessness; a person who is in a state of total spiritual impasse. As a participle, it represents the state of an individual following the historical process of despairing, replaced in modern Romanian by the adjective 'disperat'.