| NOUN | attribute | powerlessness, impotence, impotency | the quality of lacking strength or power |
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| Sounds | paw'erlahsnahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | The quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble. | |
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| Synonyms | impotence, impotency | |
| Narrower | helplessness, weakness, impuissance | powerlessness revealed by an inability to act |
| ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, ineffectuality | lacking the power to be effective | |
| paper tiger | The nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual | |
| uninterestingness | inability to capture or hold one's interest | |
| unpersuasiveness | inability to persuade | |
| voicelessness | Having no voice in the management or control of affairs | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence |
| Spanish | impotencia | |
| Catalan | impotència | |
| Adjectives | powerless | lacking power |
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