The phrase "absence of despair" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state or condition where there is no feeling of hopelessness or distress.
Example: "In the midst of chaos, she found an unexpected absence of despair that allowed her to remain calm."
Alternatives: "lack of hopelessness" or "void of despair".
The absence of hope is despair.
In his own speech, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, took a similar tack, addressing Mr. Bush directly and saying, "We do recognize — and I presume that you share with me this view — that the absence of hope and overwhelming despair would feed extremism".
People who don't quite understand depression will describe it as being "really sad," but beyond sadness, there's the feeling of a total absence of hope, of complete despair.
At the time, I would have insisted that my rituals of self-abuse – drinking, pills, the impulse to put my body in danger in ways I now know were deliberate – were merely efforts to escape; that I was contending, however clumsily, with the overwhelming despair at the absence of God.
When Men Should Weep was first rediscovered, in the 1980s by John McGrath's 7 84 it was its absence of agit-prop preaching, melodrama and despair that saw it acclaimed as a lost Scottish masterpiece.
Despairing of the absence of sloe gins that he'd tasted in Britain, where artisanal sloe gins are as common as limoncellos in Italy, Mr. Cecchini went so far as to make his own last year, steeping sloe-like Atlantic beach plums in gin while visiting Cape Cod.
He despaired of the absence of any apparent tendency, this lack of pattern, reason.
"Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair" begins with an evocation of the beloved's physical presence and ends with acceptance of her absence.
This year, 27-year-old Jones took Wales from the depths of despair - they had crashed out of the 2007 World Cup at the group stage, in his absence through injury - to a triumphant Six Nations clean sweep.
