noun
- Utter lack of hope: despair, desperateness, desperation, despond, despondence, despondency. See hope/despair.
hopelessness
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success
Antonym: hopefulness (meaning #2)
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- hope
- optimism
- despair
- Depressive disorder (in medicine)
- throw up one's hands (Idiom)
- Invalid (dream symbols)
- hopeless
- melancholia
- death wish
- gloomy
