Synonym: impuissance, weakness. Similar words: helpless, helplessly, sleeplessness, artlessness, carelessness, lawlessness, uselessness, restlessness. Meaning: ['helplɪsnɪs] 
n. 1. powerlessness revealed by an inability to act 2. the state of needing help from something 3. a feeling of being unable to manage.
n. 1. powerlessness revealed by an inability to act 2. the state of needing help from something 3. a feeling of being unable to manage. 
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1. The incident left me with a sense of helplessness.
2. I remember my feelings of helplessness.
3. A feeling of utter helplessness washed over him.
4. Most rape victims confess a feeling of helplessness.
5. Jim signaled his helplessness to Mary to leave the party.
6. I was overwhelmed by a feeling of helplessness as I watched her being wheeled into the operating theatre.
7. This feeling of desperation and helplessness was common to most of the refugees.
8. The undergarments are fear,(sentencedict.com) guilt and helplessness.
9. Our helplessness, outrage and fear were not collateral damage.
10. Adam kept his silence and cursed his helplessness.
11. I distinctly remember the overwhelming feeling of abject helplessness which this incident brought about.
12. This helplessness had been clear, in fact[Sentencedict.com], as early as 1945.
13. This induces a feeling of helplessness and engenders a belief in hidden explanations and conspiracy theories.
14. The inevitable revolt shows only too plainly the helplessness of the seamen against the power of authority.
15. He had that resigned helplessness which hospital patients and people in the thrall of religious experience have.
16. An air of helplessness and despair spread about, punctuated by stirrings of an uglier mood.
17. More of the helplessness of simply not being on the same wavelength as the person you were supposed to be closest to.
18. He drew long, soft, angry breaths, waiting mute and dangerous inside his helplessness like a beast in its lair.
19. I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us. Oprah Winfrey 
20. What happens to your body then is that feelings of helplessness and hopelessness soon translate into depressed immune function.
21. The region's new political masters turned to them in a desperate hope that their expertise would make good their own helplessness.
22. But our actions only aggravate their passivity and feelings of helplessness.
23. And in that instant her heart seemed to burst with love inside her and simultaneously shrivel with grief and helplessness.
24. As I swabbed the table with disinfectant I had the old feeling of helplessness.
25. I wept, as I had so many times in my research, in surprise and disbelief at her helplessness.
26. She screamed loudly, but it was a bellow of rage not helplessness.
27. Aware of a hex and sure of its power, the victim falls into learned helplessness and slides into submissive death.
28. Fair enough, but do we want to equate personal helplessness and failure with mental disorder?
29. Battered women are often depressed, anxiety-ridden, suffering from low self-esteem or displaying a countenance of helplessness.
30. Her ability to endure his violence is not seen as helplessness or masochism, but rather as evidence of her moral strength.
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