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HOPELESSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("hopelessness" is a kind of...):
despair (the feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well)
Antonym:
hopefulness (the feeling you have when you have hope)
Derivation:
hopeless (without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success)
hopeless (of a person unable to do something skillfully)
