powerlessness

English

Etymology

powerless +‎ -ness

Noun

powerlessness (usually uncountable, plural powerlessnesses)

The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.

Synonyms

impotence

Translations

The state or character of being powerless

Chinese:
Mandarin: 無力 (zh), 无力 (zh) (wúlì)
Czech: bezmocnost f
Finnish: voimattomuus (fi)
French: impuissance (fr) f
German: Machtlosigkeit (de) f
Hungarian: tehetetlenség (hu), gyengeség (hu)

Japanese: 無力 (ja) (むりょく, muryoku)
Latin: impotentia
Macedonian: немоќ (nemokj)
Manx: neuchummaght f
Persian: ناتوانی‎ (fa) (nâtavâni), ضعف‎ (fa) (za'f)
Russian: бесси́лие (ru) n (bessílije)
Spanish: impotencia f

See also

helplessness

References

powerlessness in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
“powerlessness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.

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