Synonyms for hopelessness
hope·less·ness

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1. hopelessness

   Discouragement is the result of so much repulse or failure as wears out courage. Discouragements too frequent and long continued may produce a settled hopelessness. Hopelessness is negative, and may result from simple apathy; despondency and despair are more emphatic and decided. Despondency is an incapacity for the present exercise of hope; despair is the utter abandonment of hope. Despondency relaxes energy and effort and is always attended with sadness or distress; despair may produce a stony calmness, or it may lead to desperation. Desperation is energized despair, vigorous in action, reckless of consequences.

   Synonyms:
   despair, desperation, despondency, discouragement

   Antonyms:
   anticipation, assurance, cheer, confidence, courage, elation, encouragement, expectancy, expectation, hope, hopefulness, trust

Princeton's WordNetRate this antonym:5.0 / 1 vote

1. hopelessnessnoun

   the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success

   Antonyms:
   hopefulness

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1. • Despair

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1. List of paraphrases for "hopelessness":

   despair, desperation, powerlessness, helplessness, impotence

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1. Kathleen Ethier:

   At the same time, the rate of violence and victimization they're experiencing hasn't gone down. Bullying hasn't decreased. The proportion of youth who have ever been physically forced to have sex has not decreased, we're seeing increases in experiences of persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness and suicide ideation and behaviors, and so that remains a great concern.

2. Virginia Spencer:

   Most of us, if we went through our life falling apart, losing our home, losing our children, going through tremendous depression and hopelessness, we're not the same people, what's rare about Pam is she still has something in her spirit that's loving, that's giving and that wants to help.

3. Former Maryland Gov. Parris Glendening:

   He understands what it is like to be the top elected official in a really challenging urban area, including the area of law enforcement, what you've got here is a powder keg in the sense that the community doesn't trust the police and the police doesn't trust the community, amidst a growing sense of poverty and inequity and hopelessness.

4. The Jimmy:

   As I said those words, I felt the loneliness, the hopelessness of people who had nowhere to turn, and my eyes filled with tears. I broke down sobbing.

5. Mafuzur Rahman:

   The hopelessness, helplessness I see in their eyes -- they want to do the very best they can.