powerlessness
nounEtymology From powerless + -ness.
1
Usually The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.
- Near-synonym: helplessness
- 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’.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 47:
- Related terms
- helplessness