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frustration
/fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/
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What does frustration mean?
noun
- The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
- The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
- The state of contract that allows a party to back away from its contractual obligations due to (unforeseen) radical changes to the nature of the thing a party has been obligated to.
More meanings (2)
noun
- A thing that frustrates.
- Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
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IPA pronunciation
/fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/
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The apathy which seemed to take possession of some of the men at the frustration of their hopes was soon dispelled.
That is the sort of enterprise the women are engaged in, the frustration of the criminal tendencies of those born in vice.
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In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting.
Man, acutely aware of himself as an individual adventure and unawakened to himself as a species, finds life jangling and distressful, finds death frustration.