frustration

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frustrate + -ation

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Singular
frustration

Plural
frustrations

  1. (uncountable) Frustration is the bad feeling of not being able to do what you want to do.
    He stood on a chair, but to his frustration, he still could not reach the jar.
  2. (countable) A thing that frustrates.