helplessness

helpless | American Dictionary

helpless
adjective
us/ˈhel·pləs/
unable to care for yourself or protect yourself esp. against danger:
a helpless infant

helplessly

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˈhel·pləs·li/

helplessness

noun[ U ]us/ˈhel·pləs·nəs/

Examples of helpless

helpless
The fewer forms of expressing grief a community has, the freer but also the more helpless the grieving person is in dealing with loss.
By making many of the hungry characters children, authors project adult fears on the more pitiable frame of the helpless orphan.
The court cannot ignore the pitiable and helpless condition of the poor residing in villages.
These neo-utilitarians1 treated agents as nearly helpless bystanders in a world they construed as described adequately by reference only to its structural forces.
The heroine has an accident that renders her helpless and transforms her status on the instant from mistress to victim.
There is no script, the garden flows constantly according to the natural law which audiences are also helpless to obey.
As such, discourses of ' helpless victims ' could enable women quietly but persistently to undermine traditional expectations and make political gains.
She describes the overly entrenched characterizations of sopranos as helpless and tenors as vulnerable and romantic.
Such attributions can make the patient feel helpless and hopeless to exer t control or make life changes, except by taking medications.
This street child ' industry ' generates a mythical stereotype of hungry, helpless orphans at the mercy of death squads.
Youths in the third group will feel both less helpless and less guilty than those in the first two groups.
For fate, which could become bearable only by being made intelligible, remains in force (unaufgehoben); we remain helpless points in the midst of infinity.
If petitioners themselves did not deserve the secretary-general's benevolence, surely their innocent and helpless children did.
A large consensus even asserts that collisions remain helpless against transverse electromagnetic growth rates.
Overall, the study questions accepted categories like family patriarchs, helpless women, independent heirs, and the landed\\middle-class divide.
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