powerlessness

powerlessness

English

Etymology

From powerless +‎ -ness.

Noun

powerlessness (usually uncountable, plural powerlessnesses)

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

   Synonym: impotence

Translations

The state or character of being powerless

Chinese: Mandarin: 無力／无力 (zh) (wúlì) Czech: bezmocnost f Finnish: voimattomuus (fi) French: impuissance (fr) f German: Machtlosigkeit (de) f Hungarian: tehetetlenség (hu), gyengeség (hu), erőtlenség Irish: easpa cumhachta f, neamhchumhacht f, neamhéifeacht f Japanese: 無力 (ja) (むりょく, muryoku) Latin: impotentia Macedonian: немоќ (nemoḱ) Manx: neuchummaght f Maori: mieretanga Persian: ناتوانی‎ (fa) (nâtavâni), ضعف‎ (fa) (za'f) Polish: bezsiła f, bezsilność (pl) f Russian: бесси́лие (ru) n (bessílije) Spanish: impotencia f Swedish: vanmakt (sv) c

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.