The loss of confidence or enthusiasm. / The act of discouraging. / Anything that discourages.

present participle of discourage

that causes discouragement

discouragement

(transitive) To destroy the composure of; to disturb or agitate. / (transitive) To disarrange, or throw into a state of disorder.

One who discovers: a person who has discovered something.

A state of being discordant; disagreement, inconsistency. / Discordance of sounds; dissonance. / (genetics) The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).

(obsolete) Defeat in battle / An emotional state similar to that arising from defeat; frustration, disappointment, perplexity or embarrassment.

(American spelling) To change or lose color.

(linguistics) A word or phrase that marks a boundary in a discourse, typically as part of a dialogue. Discourse markers often signal topic changes, reformulations, discourse planning, stressing, hedging, or backchanneling.