frustration
/fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- A thing that frustrates.
- Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
Etymology / origin
From Latin frūstrātiō (“disappointment”), related to frūstrā (“in vain”). By surface analysis, frustrate + -ion.
- frūstrātiō(la)→
- frustration (English)
- Relations: bor
Related words
Descendant words
- frustration(Danish) (der)
- frustraatio(Finnish) (cog)
- フラストレーション(Japanese) (bor)
- frustrasjon(Norwegian Bokmål) (der)
- frustrasjon(Norwegian Nynorsk) (der)
- frustracion(Occitan) (cog)
- frustracja(Polish) (bor)
- frustración(Spanish) (cog)
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