worthlessness

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Recent Examples of worthlessness Like regular depression, SAD can cause negative feelings like hopelessness, worthlessness, irritability, and guilt; fatigue or reduced energy; a loss of interest in hobbies and activities; and even physical aches and pains (including headaches, cramps, and digestive problems). Maggie O'Neill, SELF, 20 Oct. 2025 The feelings of postpartum depression — despair, guilt, shame and worthlessness — began creeping in. Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for worthlessness
Noun
  • On the other hand, for white employees who do not believe in their ability to engage in similar courageous workplace actions, watching a white colleague engage in this type of action may elicit feelings of inferiority, leading to negative gossip about the individual who engaged in the action.
    Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The heiress and journalist says her reasoning stems from the emptiness of taking, and the joy of giving.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • In between, there was a two-month gap of … emptiness at practices.
    Luca Evans, Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her difficulty lay in her distance from the random violence of insignificance.
    Rachel Cusk, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2025
  • His groundbreaking work reveals how a hidden epidemic of insignificance is quietly eroding engagement, trust, and performance in organizations, and what leaders can do to reverse it.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • Data primarily comes from hospital surveys focusing on patient safety, infection prevention, and adequacy of the nurse staffing.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
  • While framed as satire, the content references child exploitation, raising questions about the adequacy of Sora 2’s safeguards.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • However, political observers and those on the right know that Kirk, as founder of Turning Point USA, was at heart an activist who transformed conservative youth politics through his robust organizing network and, in the process, changed the social acceptability of Trumpism among America's youth.
    Alex J. Rouhandeh, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • From my perspective, the real measure of acceptability isn't whether AI assisted in the process, but whether the final output demonstrates sound reasoning, originality and accuracy.
    Morey Haber, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • His attorneys plan to file motions challenging the sufficiency of the charges and alleging political pressure, while prosecutors prepare to disclose transcripts and records of his 2020 testimony.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Sep. 2025
  • To determine the sufficiency of the evidence, the appellate judges identified the reasonable inferences that could be drawn from the circumstances proved.
    Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 19 Aug. 2025

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“Worthlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/worthlessness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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