I'm not sure whether this is enlightenment or dispiritedness on my part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Class Warfare and "Mary Poppins"] Reference

"He does tend to carry an air of dispiritedness about him," admitted Mingo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness of the Light] Reference

But for the occasional doldrums or moments of dispiritedness, I like the following remedies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gentle Healing for Baby and Child] Reference

"It was very depressing because it reinforces your sense of moedeloosheid (dispiritedness)," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And it shows in a general -- I think it ` s a dispiritedness you ` re seeing about the choices in the field.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2007] Reference

But once he got used to its sheer size he saw the signs of that dispiritedness that Abbot Peter had noted in his old friend the prior.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

In effect, they are a kind of ongoing social experiment in how long people can live in a state of chronic poverty, and dispiritedness, before their bodies give way and their health falls apart.    From Wordnik.com.  [November 2003] Reference

A Broken System: The problem of combat stress and reintegration is an old one extending back veterans of the Civil War who we labeled as having "soldier's heart" -- a crushed state of mind that led to withdrawal and dispiritedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Anthony Hassan: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Who Will Provide Mental Health Care to Our Veterans and Their Families] Reference

Mark it, Sir, there is a trend afoot that will soon reach a community wide dispiritedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

The lethargy and dispiritedness, caused by their week of inaction, fell from them like a cloak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Sally] Reference

While spirit denotes energy and zest for life, apathy reflects disinterest, dispiritedness or detachment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

The sultan did so, but it had no effect on his lassitude; when he said, "Vizier, this dispiritedness will not quit me, and nothing gives me pleasure within my palace; let us, therefore, walk out in disguise.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete] Reference

In short, here is my history: I have been out of order this fortnight, without knowing what was the matter with me; pains in my head, sicknesses at my stomach, dispiritedness, and a return of the nightly fever I had in the winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference

I am glad to say that we despised the conventional poetastery about her; but I believe that we had so far lived into sympathy with her, that, whether we realized it or not, we took the tone of her dispiritedness, and assumed a part of the common experience of loss and of hopelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venetian Life] Reference

I think what I'm seeing and what I'm feeling, too, is some dispiritedness on one side in terms of the way we're going back or have gone back — including the Supreme Court decisions which are bad, bad news — plus kind of a digging in on the other side, that some of us that have said we were finished, or wanted to turn to other things, are going to try to address this thing, one way or the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Martha C. McKay, June 13, 1989. Interview C-0076. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

I was ashamed of my dispiritedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randy Susan Meyers: Digging Hurts: The Trauma of Writing Fiction Truthfully] Reference