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There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
Michael Ian Black

Meaning of "helplessness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HELPLESSNESS

helplessness  [ˈhɛlpləsnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HELPLESSNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Helplessness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HELPLESSNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of helplessness in the English dictionary

The definition of helplessness in the dictionary is the feeling of being powerless to do anything.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HELPLESSNESS


breathlessness
ˈbreθləsnɪs
callousness
ˈkæləsnɪs
carelessness
ˈkeələsnɪs
hopelessness
ˈhəʊpləsnɪs
joblessness
ˈdʒɒbləsnɪs
lawlessness
ˈlɔːləsnɪs
listlessness
ˈlɪstləsnɪs
meticulousness
mɪˈtɪkjʊləsnɪs
powerlessness
ˈpaʊələsnɪs
recklessness
ˈrɛkləsnɪs
restlessness
ˈrɛstləsnɪs
ridiculousness
rɪˈdɪkjʊləsnɪs
rootlessness
ˈruːtləsnɪs
ruthlessness
ˈruːθləsnɪs
selflessness
ˈselfləsnɪs
sleeplessness
ˈsliːpləsnɪs
thoughtlessness
ˈθɔːtləsnɪs
timelessness
ˈtaɪmləsnɪs
uselessness
ˈjuːsləsnɪs
zealousness
ˈzeləsnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HELPLESSNESS

help a person off with
help a person on with
help desk
help menu
help out
help screens
helpable
helper
helper T-cell
helpful
helpfully
helpfulness
helping
helping hand
helpless
helplessly
helpline
Helpmann
helpmate
helpmeet

WORDS THAT END LIKE HELPLESSNESS

biliousness
business
consciousness
dangerousness
deliciousness
deviousness
flawlessness
heedlessness
hilariousness
homelessness
jealousness
nervousness
obviousness
preciousness
rebelliousness
religiousness
righteousness
seriousness
statelessness
unconsciousness
viciousness

Synonyms and antonyms of helplessness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HELPLESSNESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «helplessness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of helplessness

Translation of «helplessness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HELPLESSNESS

Find out the translation of helplessness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of helplessness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «helplessness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无奈
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

impotencia
570 millions of speakers

English

helplessness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लाचारी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العجز
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

беспомощность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desamparo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনুপায়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

impuissance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tidak berdaya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hilflosigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

無力
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

무력감
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Helplessness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bất lực
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தவிப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असहायता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çaresizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

impotenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

bezradność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

безпорадність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neputință
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανικανότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hulpeloosheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hjälplöshet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hjelpeløshet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of helplessness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HELPLESSNESS»

The term «helplessness» is quite widely used and occupies the 52.743 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HELPLESSNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «helplessness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «helplessness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about helplessness

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10 QUOTES WITH «HELPLESSNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word helplessness.
1
Criss Angel
One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.
2
Michael Ian Black
There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.
3
Marshall Brickman
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
4
Susan Cheever
Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.
5
Robin Gibb
As the plane got closer to Miami, I had this terrible feeling he was dying. Maybe he was telling me that he was going. I felt anger, panic, despair and helplessness.
6
B. H. Liddell Hart
Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
7
B. H. Liddell Hart
Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.
8
Jillian Michaels
Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.
9
Terry O'Quinn
I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load of other emotions that make up our psycho-soup. I try to focus on that frustration, that sense of unfairness, and multiply it.
10
Dawn Powell
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HELPLESSNESS»

Discover the use of helplessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to helplessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Learned Helplessness: A Theory for the Age of Personal Control
The present volume, written by some of the most widely recognized leaders in the field, summarizes and integrates the theory, research, and application of learned helplessness.
Christopher Peterson, Martin E. P. Seligman, 1993
2
Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death
Describes syndromes of depression, anxiety, and psychosomatic illness and relates studies of helplessness in laboratory animals to human behavior
Martin E. P. Seligman, 1992
3
Human Learned Helplessness: A Coping Perspective
Dr. Mikulincer accounts for the complex nature of the phenomenon by focusing on cognitive, motivational, and emotional processes, and then details a new coping perspective to deal with uncontrollable events.
Mario Mikulincer, 1994
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Psychological Perspectives of Helplessness and Control in ...
It is the intent of this volume to communicate both aspects of these changes, and to offer a comprehensive review of the cross-fertilization of the field of gerontology and the psychology of reactance, freedom and control.
P.S. Fry, 1988
5
The Turned-off Child: Learned Helplessness and School Failure
Trust them and The Turned-Off Child to inform you about the ways you can see the troubled child become a winner! —Richard D. Lavoie, Author of It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend "The Gordons' methods transformed our son from an 'I can't ...
Robert Gordon, Myrna Gordon, 2006
6
Battered women as survivors: an alternative to treating ...
No descriptive material is available for this title.
Edward W. Gondolf, Ellen R. Fisher, 1988
7
Homelessness and Helplessness: Correlating Learned ...
This study explores the relationship between learned helplessness, locus of control, perceived social support, and chronic homelessness.
Olivia Scaglia, 2008
8
Rebounding from Learned Helplessness: A Measure of Academic ...
Learned helplessness is associated with numerous psychological dysfunctions.
Yong H. Kim, 2006
9
Comprehensive Handbook of Personality and Psychopathology , ...
The learned helplessness model (e. g., Maier & Seligman, 1976; Overmier & Seligman, 1967; Seligman, 1968; Seligman, Maier, & Geer, 1968; Seligman & Meyer, 1970) yielded the attributional reformulation of the learned helplessness model, ...
Jay C. Thomas, Daniel L. Segal, 2006
10
Dynamics Of Human Helplessness
The construct of learned helplessness is an integrative one; it interrelates a number of concepts in a predictable pattern. The predicted pattern of its relationship with similar and dissimilar concepts not only clarifies its conceptual network but ...
Fakir M. Sahoo, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HELPLESSNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term helplessness is used in the context of the following news items.
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Tunisia attack: Funeral of former footballer and wife - BBC News
Mr Phillips told mourners everyone had been "acutely aware of our helplessness" towards the "terrible thing that has happened". He added: ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
Oly Whites skipper Louis Fenton devastated by player eligibility …
There is now a feeling of helplessness in a squad that has remained tight throughout this sorry episode in New Zealand football. READ MORE: «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
3
Iran: What Next? | Ricochet
... occurrence granted to a people at their very weakest. It was an opportunity to recognize the power of G-d in contrast to our own helplessness. «Ricochet.com, Jul 15»
4
Tyrone Souliere: The day that Canada has greatly feared is coming
Souliere attributes this low voter turnout to a sense of helplessness as the First Nation community feels under represented and ignored by the ... «SooToday.com, Jul 15»
5
Mamasapano valedictorian seeks peace through education - Rappler
The media, advocates say, also sometimes help spread such misinformation by attaching Moros to images of either violence or helplessness. «Rappler, Jul 15»
6
Tackling Boko Haram With Intelligence And Technology
... Explosive Trace Detectors (ETDs), Thermal Imaging, etc. can be used to tackle the use of IEDs by Boko Haram; rather than the current helplessness that exists ... «NAIJ.COM, Jul 15»
7
FSUPC nurse anesthesia program receives masters accreditation
But the feeling of helplessness led Rimes to change his life, believing if he had medical training he could have saved a few more lives. «The News Herald, Jul 15»
8
Mum helps fight colic naturally | Stuff.co.nz
Out of helplessness and a great deal of frustration and sleep deprivation, I turned to the babies for answers," she said. "During thousands of ... «Timaru Herald, Jul 15»
9
In search of human dignity in Greece | openDemocracy
... of helplessness that binds us. Dignity is personal, but like many other facets of identity–like masculinity, like victimhood–it is also continuously ... «Open Democracy, Jul 15»
10
Governor's movement leaves Shatabdi passengers fuming
They argued and pleaded at the same time with the policemen, who expressed helplessness in letting them go since the Governor was ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Jul 15»

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