OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 37406

helplessness

/ˈhɛlplɪsnɪs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
desesperanza • impotencia • indefensión
The state of being helpless.
From the most ancient times to the present, in the crudest primitive tribe or the most magnificently ornamented civilization, man has found himself in a state of awed helplessness…
Near-synonyms: powerlessness, impotence
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