'Hopelessness' definitions:
Definition of 'hopelessness'
From: WordNet
noun
The despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success [ant: hopefulness]
Definition of 'Hopelessness'
From: GCIDE
- Hopeless \Hope"less\, a.
- 1. Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing. [1913 Webster]
- I am a woman, friendless, hopeless. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause. [1913 Webster]
- The hopelessword of "never to return" Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Unhoped for; despaired of. [Obs.] --Marston. -- {Hope"less*ly}, adv. -- {Hope"less*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hopelessness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurdity,
- acedia,
- aloofness,
- apathy,
- ataraxia,
- ataraxy,
- benumbedness,
- blah,
- blahs,
- blank despondency,
- comatoseness,
- death wish,
- dejectedness,
- dejection,
- depression,
- despair,
- despondency,
- despondentness,
- detachment,
- discouragement,
- disheartenment,
- disinterest,
- dispassion,
- dispiritedness,
- down trip,
- downcastness,
- downer,
- downheartedness,
- drooping spirits,
- dullness,
- heartlessness,
- hebetude,
- impossibility,
- impossible,
- impossibleness,
- inappetence,
- inconceivability,
- indifference,
- insouciance,
- lack of appetite,
- languidness,
- lethargicalness,
- lethargy,
- listlessness,
- low spirits,
- lowness,
- lowness of spirit,
- malaise,
- no chance,
- nonchalance,
- not a prayer,
- numbness,
- oppression,
- oxymoron,
- paradox,
- passiveness,
- passivity,
- pessimism,
- phlegm,
- phlegmaticalness,
- phlegmaticness,
- plucklessness,
- resignation,
- resignedness,
- Schmerz,
- self-contradiction,
- self-destructive urge,
- sinking heart,
- sloth,
- Slough of Despond,
- sluggishness,
- sopor,
- soporifousness,
- spiritlessness,
- spunklessness,
- stupefaction,
- stupor,
- suicidal despair,
- supineness,
- taedium vitae,
- the impossible,
- torpidity,
- torpidness,
- torpor,
- unconcern,
- unimaginability,
- unthinkability,
- weariness of life,
- what cannot be,
- what cannot happen,
- withdrawnness