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Nov 3, 2012 at 23:19	history	edited	tchrist♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	E2TINY
Nov 3, 2012 at 22:49	comment	added	SF.		There is a significant difference between despair and desperation. Despair is a paralyzing grief. Desperation is a "nothing left to lose" willingness for extreme acts. While they both refer to a similar situation (dire hopelessness), they describe quite opposite attitudes. I wonder where would that put desperacy on the scale.
Nov 3, 2012 at 17:55	history	edited	tchrist♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	added obsolete note
Nov 3, 2012 at 16:49	comment	added	Andrew Leach♦		Interesting that in several cases both the noun forms are common and mean different things (dengeneracy/degeneration; illegitimacy/illegitimation; intimacy/intimation; numeracy/numeration; privacy/privation; and probably others)
Nov 3, 2012 at 16:19	history	edited	tchrist♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 1616 characters in body
Nov 3, 2012 at 16:12	history	edited	tchrist♦	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 1616 characters in body
Nov 3, 2012 at 16:06	comment	added	Robusto		+1 for nominalizationalizing. I had always thought that was spelled nominalizationalitizing.
Nov 3, 2012 at 15:55	history	answered	tchrist♦	CC BY-SA 3.0