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1. hopelessness
noun. ['ˈhoʊpləsnəs'] the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success.
Antonyms
Etymology
- -ness (English)
- hopeless (English)
- -less (English)
Rhymes with Hopelessness
- abruptness
- absoluteness
- acuteness
- adonis
- aggressiveness
- agribusiness
- airworthiness
- alertness
- aloofness
- alumnus
- anise
- anus
- appropriateness
- arbitrariness
- assertiveness
- astuteness
- attentiveness
- attractiveness
- awareness
- awfulness
Sentences with hopelessness
1. Noun, singular or mass
This can lead them to a state of hopelessness.
Quotes about hopelessness
1. Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
- B. H. Liddell Hart
2. The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.
- George Lucas
3. People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.
- Geoffrey Canada