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    3. 無力感

    無力感

    無む力りょく感かん

    sense of helplessness

    KMT9Ref L1NounEmotions & PsychologyKanji Vocab27 strokes

    むりょくかん

    Noun

    1.
    sense of helplessness, feeling of powerlessness

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    彼かれは無む力りょく感かんに襲 われた。

    He was overcome by a sense of helplessness.

    KMT8Emotions & Psychology
    災さい害がいを目まの当あたりにし、多おおくの人ひと々びとが無む力りょく感かんを感かんじた。

    Witnessing the disaster firsthand, many people felt a sense of powerlessness.

    KMT9Emotions & PsychologyNature & Environment
    無む力りょく感かんは、うつ病びょうの症しょう状じょうの一ひととつとして現あらわれることがある。

    A sense of helplessness can appear as one of the symptoms of depression.

    KMT9Emotions & PsychologyMedicine & Health
    困こん難なんな状じょう況きょうでも無む力りょく感かんに打うち勝かつためには、小ちいさな成せい功こう体たい験けんを積つみ重かさねることが大たい切せつだ。

    To overcome a sense of powerlessness even in difficult situations, it is important to accumulate small successful experiences.

    KMT9Emotions & PsychologyCore Concepts
    どんなに努ど力りょくしても状じょう況きょうが変かわらない時とき、人ひとは深ふかい無む力りょく感かんに陥おちいることがある。

    When the situation doesn't change no matter how much effort is made, people can sometimes fall into a deep sense of helplessness.

    KMT10Emotions & PsychologyCore Concepts

    Kanji that make up this word

    無
    な.い…(2)
    nothingness・none・ain't・nothing・nil…(1)
    力
    ちから…(5)
    power・strength・strong・strain・bear up…(1)
    感
    emotion・feeling・sensation
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