"hopelessness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vininn126-hopelessness.wav [US] Forms: hopelessnesses [plural]
Etymology: hopeless + -ness Etymology templates: {{suf|en|hopeless|ness}} hopeless + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hopelessness (countable and uncountable, plural hopelessnesses)
  1. A lack of hope; despair. Tags: countable, uncountable Derived forms: Beck Hopelessness Scale Translations (the lack of hope; despair): հուսահատություն (husahatutʻyun) (Armenian), ümidsizlik (Azerbaijani), безнадзе́йнасць (bjeznadzjéjnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), pagkawalay-paglaom (Cebuano), نائومێدی (na'umêdî) (Central Kurdish), 絕望 (Chinese Mandarin), 绝望 (juéwàng) (Chinese Mandarin), beznaděj [feminine] (Czech), håbløshed [common-gender] (Danish), hopeloosheid [feminine] (Dutch), toivottomuus (Finnish), désespérance [feminine] (French), უიმედობა (uimedoba) (Georgian), უსასოობა (usasooba) (Georgian), სასოწარკვეთილება (sasoc̣arḳvetileba) (Georgian), Hoffnungslosigkeit [feminine] (German), απελπισία (apelpisía) [feminine] (Greek), reménytelenség (Hungarian), keputusasan (Indonesian), 絶望 (zetsubō) (alt: ぜつぼう) (Japanese), үмітсіздік (ümıtsızdık) (Kazakh), desperatio [feminine] (Latin), bezcerība [feminine] (Latvian), безнадежност (beznadežnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), takaruretanga (Maori), kiriwera (Maori), rāwakiwaki (Maori), bêhêvîtî [feminine] (Northern Kurdish), beznadzieja [feminine] (Polish), beznadziejność [feminine] (Polish), desesperança [feminine] (Portuguese), deznădejde [feminine] (Romanian), disperare [feminine] (Romanian), disperație [feminine, obsolete] (Romanian), безнадёжность (beznadjóžnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), beznađe [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), безнађе [neuter] (Serbo-Croatian), desesperanza [feminine] (Spanish), hopplöshet [common-gender] (Swedish), kawalang-pag-asa (Tagalog), umutsuzluk (Turkish), безнаді́йність (beznadíjnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
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      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
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      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
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      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "beznadjóžnostʹ",
      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "безнадёжность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "beznađe"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "безнађе"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "desesperanza"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "hopplöshet"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
      "word": "kawalang-pag-asa"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
      "word": "umutsuzluk"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "beznadíjnistʹ",
      "sense": "the lack of hope; despair",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "безнаді́йність"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hopelessness"
}

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