discouragement

Higher grades could mean less discouragement from challenging subjects and maybe even greater confidence and persistence to graduation.
Grade inflation is just plain bad. Right? Maybe not.|Valerie Strauss|September 21, 2021|Washington Post
Many faced discouragement from school officials in doing so.
After Capitol attack, social studies and civics teachers struggle with real-time history lessons|Joe Heim, Valerie Strauss|January 19, 2021|Washington Post
According to the unanimous testimony of the chroniclers, the English host was struck with serious discouragement.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison
Mr. Gryce and Miss Butterworth stepped at once into the light, and surveyed each other with a look of marked discouragement.
The Circular Study|Anna Katharine Green

It crowds the hours, and accumulates until often discouragement and nervous exhaustion follow.
The Leaven in a Great City|Lillian William Betts
He looked at her in complete discouragement, and Amarita returned his gaze with one bespeaking a conviction of her own innocence.
Country Neighbors|Alice Brown
A sense of discouragement regarding long distances was just at that moment the most remote sensation in Stanton's sensibilities.
Molly Make-Believe|Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Definition of discouragement