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English Dictionary: helplessness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
helplessness
n
  1. powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of their weakness the group remains active"
    Synonym(s): helplessness, weakness, impuissance
  2. the state of needing help from something
  3. a feeling of being unable to manage
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Helpless \Help"less\, a.
      1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend
            one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless
            infant.
  
                     How shall I then your helpless fame defend? --Pope.
  
      2. Beyond help; irremediable.
  
                     Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of
                     mind or body.                                    --Milton.
  
      3. Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.]
  
                     Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of
                     my plagues.                                       --Chapman.
  
      4. Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.]
  
                     Helpless of all that human wants require. --Dryden.
            -- {Help"less*ly}, adv. -- {Help"less*ness}, n.
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