hopelessness

English

Etymology

hopeless +‎ -ness

Noun

hopelessness (countable and uncountable, plural hopelessnesses)

1. the lack of hope; despair

Derived terms

• Beck Hopelessness Scale

Translations

the lack of hope; despair

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 絕望／绝望 (zh) (juéwàng), 绝望 (zh) (juéwàng)

• Czech: beznaděj f
• Finnish: toivottomuus (fi)
• French: désespérance (fr) f
• German: Hoffnungslosigkeit (de) f
• Greek: απελπισία (el) f (apelpisía)
• Japanese: 絶望 (ja) (ぜつぼう, zetsubō)
• Kazakh: үмітсіздік (ümıtsızdık)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: bêhêvîtî (ku) f

  Sorani:

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• Macedonian: безнадежност f (beznadežnost)
• Maori: takaruretanga, kiriwera, rāwakiwaki
• Polish: beznadzieja (pl) f
• Portuguese: desesperança (pt) f
• Romanian: desperare (ro) f, desperație (ro) f
• Russian: безнадёжность (ru) f (beznadjóžnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: beznađe (sh) n, безнађе n
• Spanish: desesperanza (es) f
• Swedish: hopplöshet (sv) c
• Turkish: umutsuzluk (tr)