Synonyms of helplessness

helplessness

noun

as in powerlessness

Related Words

• powerlessness
• vulnerability
• susceptibility
• passivity
• defenselessness
• weakness
• feebleness
• sensitivity
• passiveness
• infirmity
• frailty
• predisposition
• proneness
• openness
• naïveté
• receptivity
• exposure
• receptiveness
• gullibility
• frailness
• easiness
• liability
• credulity
• credulousness

Dissimilar Words

• invulnerability
• immunity
• invincibility
• impenetrability
• indomitability
• indomitableness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of helplessness

Could Kleist’s conjecture provide a key to their seeming vacancy, their resignation, their helplessness, suggesting that in their benighted condition lies spiritual perfection? — Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026

There are also horrifying incidents of helplessness and despair, as well as touching examples of hope, faith and redemption. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026

There is a particular sort of helplessness that comes from knowing exactly how to fix a computer while being hundreds of miles away from it. — New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2026

As Josephine’s mother, Claire, Chan is luminous with quiet sorrow, conveying maternal guilt and helplessness with precision. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

To watch Shaw in full flight must fill defences with a sense of pure helplessness. — Katie Whyatt, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026

Picture the anger and helplessness of watching that person bleed out through a video on your phone. — Stephania Taladrid, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026

At this moment, complete inertia, helplessness, or escape seemed to be the only ways to react, but Zionism offered a strategy for coping with the changing circumstances, a strategy that had begun with Theodor Herzl. — Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

Indignation emerged as the dominant emotion, cited by 80% of respondents, followed by helplessness (74%) and sadness (71%). — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 5 Aug. 2026