hopelessness
(ˈhəʊplɪsnɪs)
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
Hopeless condition; want of hope, despair; state of being despaired of, desperateness.
| 1809 H. More Coelebs II. 19 (Jod.) That discouraging superiority, which others might be deterred from imitating through hopelessness to reach. 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. (1873) II. i. i. 13 A message which well illustrates the hopelessness of going to war with them. 1880 Ouida Moths Il. 287 The old heavy burden of hopelessness and apathy had fallen on her again. |