Where does “despairingness” come from?
despairingness (English) comes from English despairing, from Middle English despeyringe, from Anglo-Norman despeir, from Old French desperer, from Latin dēsperō, from Esperanto -o, from Spanish -ó, from Latin Aramaicus.
despairingness (English): The state or quality of being despairing
Definitions
- The state or quality of being despairing
Ancestry of “despairingness”, step by step