helplessness
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈhɛlpləsnəs/
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indefensión
- When faced with the disaster, she was overwhelmed by a sense of helplessness as she couldn't change the situation.
- learned helplessness
- feeling of helplessness
- sense of helplessness
The problem is when that helplessness leads to hopelessness.
- The problem is when that helplessness leads to hopelessness.
- And that is such a heavy feeling of helplessness and then more grief.
- Worries, fears and political helplessness have grown.
- And again, it's that that feeling of helplessness.
- And then he says what they don't comprehend is man's helplessness.
- And this was just, you know, kind of a feeling of helplessness.
- I think their kids just look on with a sense of helplessness.
- And they seem to have a profound sense of helplessness about their future.
- The other bad effect that will come from Ubi is learned helplessness.
- What what you're describing to me is a kind of learned helplessness and it feeds on lack of momentum.
- Where we've become we we've developed a kind of collective learned helplessness.
- And it's something psychologists call learned helplessness.
- It's something about the helplessness of seeing a loved one acting very out of character.
- Hopelessness, helplessness, a belief that maybe I can't change, maybe this future isn't meant for me.
- Great example of this would be, you know, the notion of learned helplessness or that of depersonalization.
Examples
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And they seem to have a profound sense of helplessness about their future.
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It's something about the helplessness of seeing a loved one acting very out of character.
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That sense of helplessness to me is the worst feeling in the world.
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And then she had this look of helplessness.
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That helplessness you feel when you have no talent to offer, outside of loving your husband.
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I'd only felt such helplessness once before.
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The problem is when that helplessness leads to hopelessness.
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It's the feeling of utter helplessness.
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Some felt a sense of debilitating helplessness that made everyday life difficult to endure.
Academic text (2008) -
Rachel shook her head with a helplessness that was almost jarringly out of character.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
177
2.8
Not able to do something you need to do
133
1.4
Lack of physical or mental strength that makes someone less able to act
9
5.8
A feeling of being unable to control or change what happens
9
5.4
Not able to do things because your body or mind does not work well
1
6.0
Not being able to do something because you lack the ability
1
6.3
Not being able to protect yourself from harm or attack
A feeling of being unable to change things
A lack of ability to do something
Antonyms
How Able
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Helplessness breaks into help ('to give help'), -less ('without') and -ness ('a state'). So it literally means 'the state of being without help', which is why it describes the feeling of not being able to do anything to change a situation.