hopelessness

2 definitions • 4 examples

the feeling or state of being without hope:

I find the hopelessness of the situation very depressing.

Utter hopelessness about your future is one symptom of depression.

the quality of being without skill at a particular activity:

His hopelessness at remembering names meant that he had to look them up in his book.

His schools had only seen his hopelessness at literacy and missed his outstanding grasp of the visual.