despair vs status

despair and status both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
despair	Yes	No	Yes	No
status	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, status is a hypernym of despair; that is, status is a word with a broader meaning than despair:

Other hypernyms of despair include condition.

despair (noun)	status (noun)
the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well	the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
a state in which all hope is lost or absent	a state at a particular time

despair (verb)	status (verb)
abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart