Synonyms for hopelessness
hope·less·ness

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1. hopelessness

   Discouragement is the result of so much repulse or failure as wears out courage. Discouragements too frequent and long continued may produce a settled hopelessness. Hopelessness is negative, and may result from simple apathy; despondency and despair are more emphatic and decided. Despondency is an incapacity for the present exercise of hope; despair is the utter abandonment of hope. Despondency relaxes energy and effort and is always attended with sadness or distress; despair may produce a stony calmness, or it may lead to desperation. Desperation is energized despair, vigorous in action, reckless of consequences.

   Synonyms:
   despair, desperation, despondency, discouragement

   Antonyms:
   anticipation, assurance, cheer, confidence, courage, elation, encouragement, expectancy, expectation, hope, hopefulness, trust

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1. hopelessnessnoun

   the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

   Antonyms:
   hopefulness

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1. List of paraphrases for "hopelessness":

   despair, desperation, powerlessness, helplessness, impotence

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1. Pamela Burrell:

   I see myself in an apartment some day soon in the future. Would love to have my own restaurant. Right now I just want to be here. I just want to be sane, healthy, just moving along in the process, most of us, if we went through our life falling apart, losing our home, losing our children, going through tremendous depression and hopelessness, we're not the same people.

2. Narsha Bulgakbaev:

   There is no hopelessness, there is ignorance. There are no unsolvable problems in this life, there are only people who do not know how to fight and endure, and look for a way out. There is no way out except from the grave. But “No, I have a special case,” “God forbid, it’s easy to say.”

3. Ian Lambie:

   Put bluntly, they experience a sense of hopelessness and complete vulnerability, and a lack of sensory stimulation from the outside world, any confinement needs to be for as limited a period of time as possible, allowing the young person to reintegrate into their surroundings.

4. Bob Reish:

   When we write our goals down, we are able to use them as a road map when we feel lost in the stress and the hopelessness of the moment.

5. Thomas Abt:

   I think, unfortunately, across the country generally, but especially in communities that are hardest hit by high homicide rates, there is this hopelessness that there's really nothing that can be done and that it is this chronic problem that is beyond sort of solving, fortunately, that's not the case.