Usually means: Conditioned passivity from repeated failures.
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General (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. learned helplessness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. learned helplessness: Collins English Dictionary
  3. learned helplessness: Dictionary.com
  4. Learned Helplessness, Learned helplessness: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. learned helplessness: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. learned helplessness: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Helplessness, learned, learned helplessness: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  4. Helplessness, learned, learned helplessness: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Learned Helplessness: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (learned helplessness)

noun:  (psychology) A state that occurs after a person has experienced a stressful situation repeatedly. They come to believe that they are unable to control or change the situation, so they do not try, even when opportunities for change become available.

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