hopelessness
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈhoʊpləsnəs/
:
desesperanza
- After losing her job and facing many rejections, she fell into a deep sense of hopelessness about her future.
- hopelessness and helplessness
- hopelessness and despair
- feeling of hopelessness
It's hard to describe it, but that hopelessness just overwhelms.
- It's hard to describe it, but that hopelessness just overwhelms.
- And there's a terrible sense of hopelessness about it really.
- Do you have a sense of powerlessness or hopelessness?
- I felt the emotions of depression and despair and hopelessness for the first time in my entire life.
- The problem is when that helplessness leads to hopelessness.
- Faith in the face of loss, faith in the face of near hopelessness.
- But when you speak to someone who's, who's going through serious depression, there is a huge sense of, of overwhelming hopelessness and helplessness.
- They were then in a state of utter hopelessness, and all their angry feelings turned against Pericles.
- I can completely see why that would cause people to cascade down from hope to increasing gradations of hopelessness.
- So you're in this state of teetering on hopelessness your year end.
- Anger, sadness, tears, anxiety, frustration, helplessness, hopelessness, feelings.
- You know, all these, all these realities about despair, hopelessness and disconnection.
- But it's not giving in, and it's not hopelessness.
Examples
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And there's a terrible sense of hopelessness about it really.
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I'd forgotten how to feel anything but hopelessness.
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Because I now know that hopelessness is the enemy of justice.
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Bill Rogers was experienced enough to recognize the near hopelessness of the situation.
Academic text (1990) -
I felt the emotions of depression and despair and hopelessness for the first time in my entire life.
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For the person living with chronic pain, frustration, anxiety, and hopelessness can emerge in trying to explain one's experience.
Academic text (2000) -
Everyone experiences hopelessness sometimes, but depression is when hopelessness spreads over your whole horizon like an oil slick.
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They were then in a state of utter hopelessness, and all their angry feelings turned against Pericles.
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Don't you think that someone's hopelessness should motivate us to protect them, not destroy them?
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But when you speak to someone who's, who's going through serious depression, there is a huge sense of, of overwhelming hopelessness and helplessness.
Synonyms
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3.5
A complete loss of hope
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3.7
A feeling of no hope that makes someone take big risks
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8.3
A strong feeling of sadness and loss of hope after something bad
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8.8
A feeling of deep sadness and no hope
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3.4
A feeling of sadness and little hope felt by people or in a place
A deep sadness that nothing can comfort
A feeling of being discouraged and without much hope
A feeling of sadness and no hope
Antonyms
How Hopeless
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hopelessness is built from hope plus the ending -less meaning 'without', and -ness which turns an adjective into a 'state' or 'feeling'. So, hopelessness is simply the state of being without 'hope', which explains its meaning of deep despair.