noun
- the feeling or state of having no hope; despair
Examples
- The patient’s family felt a sense of hopelessness after hearing the diagnosis.
- She struggled with feelings of hopelessness during her unemployment.
- The war brought widespread hopelessness to the civilian population.
- His hopelessness gradually lifted as he began to see progress.
- The counselor helped her work through her hopelessness.
- There was an air of hopelessness in the abandoned neighborhood.