Hopelessness is the state of seeing no way things can improve. A sense of hopelessness, sink into hopelessness, the hopelessness of it.
It is one of the signs clinicians ask about directly, since hopelessness rather than sadness is what most strongly predicts real danger. It is a judgement about the future rather than a feeling about the present.
1nounhopelessnessThe state of seeing no way things can improve.
“After months without work, he was filled with a deep sense of hopelessness.”
hopelessness is a state.
From hopeless + -ness.
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