| NOUN | attribute | powerfulness, power | possession of controlling influence |
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| Meaning | possession of controlling influence. | |
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| Example | "his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade" | |
| Synonym | power | |
| Attributes | powerful | Having great power or force or potency or effect |
| powerless | lacking power | |
| Narrower | control | Power to direct or determine |
| disposal | The power to use something or someone | |
| effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness, effectuality | Power to be effective | |
| free will, discretion | The power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies | |
| influence | A power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc | |
| interest, interestingness | The power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) | |
| irresistibility, irresistibleness | The quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist | |
| legal power, jurisdiction | (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law | |
| persuasiveness, strength | The power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument / argument or entreaty | |
| potency, effectiveness, strength | Capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | |
| preponderance | superiority in power or influence | |
| puissance | Power to influence or coerce | |
| repellent, repellant | The power to repel / repel | |
| stranglehold, chokehold, throttlehold | complete power over a person or situation | |
| sway | Controlling influence | |
| valence, valency | (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals | |
| valence, valency | (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | |
| veto | The power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature) | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | powerlessness, impotence, impotency | The quality of lacking strength or power |
| Spanish | poder, potencia | |
| Catalan | poder, potència | |
| Adjectives | powerful | having great power or force or potency or effect |
| powerful | having great influence | |
| powerful | displaying superhuman strength or power | |
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