sense of helplessness

collocation in English

meaningsofsenseandhelplessness

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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helplessness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈhelp.ləs.nəs/us
/ˈhelp.ləs.nəs/
the feeling or state of being unable to do anything to help yourself or ...
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(Definition ofsenseandhelplessnessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Other times, action was mainly done f or the purpose of distraction or to counteract asenseofhelplessness.
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Instead, it might be the case that asenseofhelplessnesshas resulted from not being adequately informed as to procedures and what to expect.
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High levels of interpersonal stress also may overwhelm children's resources and thereby contribute to asenseofhelplessnessand problematic coping styles.
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Futile efforts to exert control create asenseofhelplessness,37 as individuals attribute the control failure to their own incapacity.
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At the most basic level, we would view the child'ssenseofhelplessnessas grounded in a primary failure to receive effective care around attachment needs in infancy.
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To do otherwise would feed asenseofhelplessnessand despair.
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They develop asenseofhelplessnessthat can ricochet back on their family life and their working life.
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They are in many ways without any rights; there is a realsenseofhelplessnesswhen faced with officialdom and official policy.
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There is nothing that hurts so much as thesenseofhelplessnessthat these men feel.
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The commission says that the result was a sense of betrayal, a lack of trust and a genuinesenseofhelplessness.
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The cumulative effect of these closures and redundancies has been to produce bitterness, frustration and asenseofhelplessnessamong every generation.
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I had asenseofhelplessnessat ever getting at the reality.
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They feel asenseofhelplessness, a belief that nothing can be done about crime.
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I can well understand the indignation andsenseofhelplessnesswhich the industry felt when it was confronted with that information.
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At first, asenseofhelplessnesspredominated in the committee.
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Thesenseofhelplessnesswas worst.
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I do not say for a moment that we are watching it with complacency, but at any rate we are watching it with asenseofhelplessness.
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As a generalisation, they have a greater sense of resignation, and asenseofhelplessnessand of frustration because they have special difficulties of their own to put up with.
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However, in our inner cities, the suburbs and the countryside today, any sense of belonging has been replaced by asenseofhelplessnessand frustration, alienation and anger.
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However, health visitors feel asenseofhelplessnessand hopelessness because whatever service they give —and health visitors give a high service—they cannot help the children.
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