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noun (n)

• a state in which all hope is lost or absent(noun.state)

  Example:
  Courage born of desperation.
  

  Synonym:
  despair
  

  source: wordnet30
• desperate recklessness(noun.attribute)

  Example:
  It was a policy of desperation.
  

  source: wordnet30
• The act of despairing or becoming desperate; a giving up of hope.(noun)

  source: webster1913