hopelessness as a noun: - 1
hopelessness
noun
1 hopelessness
The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success.
Roget 471:
impossibility
etc.
adj.;
what cannot,
what can never be;
sour grapes;
hopelessness
etc.
859.
Roget 859:
hopelessness
etc.
adj.;
despair,
desperation;
despondency,
depression
etc.
(dejection)
837;
pessimism,
pessimist;
Job's comforter;
bird of bad omen,
bird of ill omen.
abandonment,
desolation;
resignation,
surrender,
submission
etc.
725.
hope deferred,
dashed hopes;
vain expectation
etc.
(disappointment)
509.
airy hopes
etc.
etc.
858;
forlorn hope;
gone case,
dead duck,
gone coon [U.S.];
goner [Slang];
bad job,
bad business;
enfant perdu [Fr.];
gloomy horizon,
black spots in the horizon;
slough of Despond,
cave of Despair;
immedicabile vulnus [Lat.].
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Dutch: hopeloosheid
Polish: poczucie beznadziei, poczucie beznadziejności
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