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say it: HOH-pluh-snuhs
hopelessness is a noun meaning "the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success". It carries one recorded sense.
the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hopelessness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.