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/hˈɛlpləsnəs/ Listen

Helplessness

noun

Powerlessness revealed by an inability to act. Synonyms: impuissance, weakness.

The state of needing help from something.

A feeling of being unable to manage.

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"Helplessness" Quotes from Famous Books

... for Dick than for any one else,' declared Alan, who had joined the group; he could not imagine a more terrible life than the one of utter helplessness to which ...

— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various

... impressions; that somewhere in the process of 'being educated' they had lost that simple and almost automatic response to the human appeal, that old healthful reaction resulting in activity from the mere presence of suffering or of helplessness; that they are so sheltered and pampered they have no chance even to ...

— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams

... he roused her as gently as he could. It was helplessness, as much as anything else, that had made him leave her alone; but a woman needs to weep now and then. ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various

... time, I guess, I realized the awful helplessness that comes over the Psiless when a TK invokes his telekinetic power. I wanted no part of the future this corn-fed oracle had conjured up. But it might be the ...

— Vigorish • Gordon Randall Garrett

... upon his evident helplessness, Mr. Lloyd gave him a good deal of assistance, or allowed Mary—the ever-willing and ever-helpful Mary—to do so. But after a while he thought Bert should run alone, and prohibited further aid. Thus ...

— Bert Lloyd's Boyhood - A Story from Nova Scotia • J. McDonald Oxley

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