frustration

See also: Frustration

English

Etymology

From Latin frūstrātiō (“disappointment”), related to frūstrā (“in vain”). By surface analysis, frustrate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fɹʌsˈtɹeɪ.ʃən/, /fɹəˈstɹeɪ.ʃən/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

frustration (countable and uncountable, plural frustrations)

1. The feeling of annoyance at impossibility from resistance or inability to achieve something.
2. The act of frustrating, or the state, or an instance of being frustrated.
   1. (law) 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.
3. A thing that frustrates.
4. Anger not directed at anything or anyone in particular.
   • 1965, The Georgia Review‎^[1], volume 19, University of Georgia, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 197:

     The hope , however , is a slight one , and most attempts to love end in frustration : even Singer cannot endure the thought of life without Antonapoulos . The next most selfless seeker after love and happiness is Mick , who longs to express herself and to communicate with others through music, and her failure is pathetic because […]

Translations

feeling of annoyance

• Arabic: إِحْبَاط (ʔiḥbāṭ)
• Belarusian: расчарава́нне n (rasčaravánnje), незадаво́ленасць f (njezadavóljenascʹ), расстро́йства n (rasstrójstva), разла́д m (razlád)
• Bulgarian: разочарование (bg) n (razočarovanie)
• Catalan: frustració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 挫折 (zh) (cuòzhé)

• Czech: frustrace f
• Danish: frustration c
• Esperanto: frustriĝo
• Finnish: harmitus, turhautuneisuus, turhauma, frustraatio (fi)
• French: frustration (fr) f
• German: Frust (de) m, Frustration (de) f
• Greek: στέρηση (el) f (stérisi)
• Hebrew: תסכול (he)
• Hungarian: frusztráció (hu)
• Indonesian: frustrasi (id)
• Italian: insoddisfazione (it) f, delusione (it) f
• Japanese: 挫折 (ja) (ざせつ, zasetsu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: frustrasjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: frustrasjon m

• Plautdietsch: Äwadrissichkjeit f
• Polish: frustracja (pl) f
• Romanian: frustrare (ro) f, frustrație (ro) f
• Russian: разочарова́ние (ru) n (razočarovánije), неудовлетворённость (ru) f (neudovletvorjónnostʹ), расстро́йство (ru) n (rasstrójstvo)
• Serbo-Croatian: frustrácija (sh) f
• Spanish: frustración (es) f
• Swedish: frustration (sv) c
• Ukrainian: розчарува́ння n (rozčaruvánnja), незадово́леність f (nezadovólenistʹ), ро́злад m (rózlad), фрустра́ція (uk) f (frustrácija)

act of frustrating

• Bulgarian: разочарование (bg) n (razočarovanie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: frustratie (nl) f
• Finnish: turhauttaminen (fi), turhautuminen (fi)
• French: frustration (fr) f
• Galician: frustración (gl) f
• German: Frustration (de) f
• Italian: frustrazione (it)
• Maori: hēmanawatanga, whakahēmanawatanga
• Portuguese: frustração (pt) f
• Romanian: frustrare (ro) f, frustrație (ro) f
• Russian: расстро́йство (ru) n (rasstrójstvo), срыв (ru) m (sryv), круше́ние (ru) n (krušénije), фрустра́ция (ru) f (frustrácija) (business), крах (ru) m (krax)
• Serbo-Croatian: frustrácija (sh) f
• Spanish: frustración (es)
• Turkish: bıkkınlık (tr)

state or instance of being frustrated

• Hungarian: akadályoztatás (hu), csalódottság (hu), csalódás (hu), kiábrándultság (hu), elkeseredettség (hu)

contractual frustration

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 落空 (zh) (luòkōng)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tarkoituksettomuus (fi) (state), tuleminen tarkoituksettomaksi (becoming), käyminen tarkoituksettomaksi (becoming)
• German: Frustration (de) f (exact concept may not exist in German law)
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: hinder (sv) n

thing that frustrates

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: frustratie (nl) f
• Finnish: vastus (fi), vaiva (fi), turhauttava juttu
• German: Frustration (de) f
• Serbo-Croatian: frustrácija (sh) f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} frustratie (nl) f
• French: ^{(please verify)} frustration (fr)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} frustración (es) f

Danish

Etymology

English frustration

Noun

frustration c (singular definite frustrationen, plural indefinite frustrationer)

1. frustration (feeling)

Declension

Declension of frustration

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	frustration	frustrationen	frustrationer	frustrationerne
genitive	frustrations	frustrationens	frustrationers	frustrationernes

Derived terms

• frustrationstærskel
• frustrere

See also

• desperation

References

• “frustration” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin frustrātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

frustration f (plural frustrations)

1. frustration

Further reading

• “frustration”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Swedish

Noun

frustration c

1. frustration (feeling of frustration)

Declension

Declension of frustration

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	frustration	frustrations
	definite	frustrationen	frustrationens
plural	indefinite	frustrationer	frustrationers
	definite	frustrationerna	frustrationernas

Related terms

• frustrerad
• frustrerande

References

• frustration in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• frustration in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH