transcription, транскрипция: [ desəleɪʃ(ə)n ]
1.
Desolation is a feeling of great unhappiness and hopelessness.
Kozelek expresses his sense of desolation absolutely without self-pity.
= misery
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2.
If you refer to desolation in a place, you mean that it is empty and frightening, for example because it has been destroyed by a violent force or army.
We looked out upon a scene of desolation and ruin...
= devastation
N-UNCOUNT [ disapproval ]