helpliness

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The state, quality, or condition of being helply

    不可数

    Where she finds her greatness, departing from her, and is made mute equally by a sense of helpliness, and a feeling of pride, her look and attitude conveyed wonderful expression.

    "… What is there to prevent me ?" Dwelling on this question, as if weighed down by a sense of ignoble self-helpliness, he fell fast asleep.

词源

From helply + -ness.

来源：wiktionary