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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
    Antonyms: power, powerfulness
    Coordinate term: weakness
    Near-synonym: helplessness
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 47:
      In July 1717, a commission established by Orléans to adjudicate the issue had emphatically denied the successoral claims of the two brothers, and the Regent declared himself in a state of ‘happy powerlessness to alienate the crown's domain’.

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