Zen Theme Outputting Term Desc in Node - How To Add To Views
See source of term:

&lt;a href="/index.php?q=taxonomy/term/1" rel="tag" title="Some descr term01"&gt;term01&lt;/a&gt;


So term's descrtiption here just title attribute.
So for Views you can add field with link (or rewrite output), and put in Title some placeholder name.