Definition for Powerlessness:

• The quality of being powerless.

Synonyms for Powerlessness:

• n.

  •
  • affect,
  • strong.
  •feebleness (noun)
  • debilitation,
  • faintness,
  • frailness,
  • ricketiness,
  • infirmity,
  • fragility,
  • Sickliness,
  • flimsiness,
  • softness,
  • decrepitude,
  • feebleness,
  • ailment.
  •powerlessness (noun)
  • impotence,
  • shortcoming,
  • inefficiency,
  • disqualification,
  • failure,
  • incapability,
  • ineptitude,
  • insufficiency,
  • inadequacy,
  • incompetence,
  • necessity,
  • unfitness,
  • lack,
  • frailty,
  • impotency.
  •prostration (noun)
  • abashment,
  • stupefaction,
  • submissiveness,
  • collapse.
  •weakness (noun)
  • delicacy,
  • liking,
  • chink in armor,
  • fault,
  • inclination,
  • predilection,
  • enervation,
  • passion,
  • failing,
  • vice,
  • inconstancy,
  • indecision,
  • irresolution,
  • instability,
  • proclivity,
  • lapse,
  • flaw,
  • achilles heel,
  • invalidity,
  • soft spot,
  • languor,
  • debility,
  • gap,
  • deficiency,
  • senility,
  • fondness,
  • penchant,
  • vitiation,
  • anemia,
  • imperfection,
  • blemish,
  • sore point,
  • impairment,
  • vulnerability.
  •weak point (noun)
  • weak-point.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • ineffectiveness,
  • ineffectualness,
  • inefficacy,
  • ineffectuality.
  •
  • incapacity,
  • uselessness.

Paraphrases for Powerlessness:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    helplessness.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    weakness.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    defencelessness, failure, power, frustration, paralysis, fragility, shortcoming.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    helpless.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    inability, incompetence, incapacity, inadequacy, impossibility.

Antonyms for Powerlessness:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    effectualness, efficaciousness, strength, capacity, fitness, capability, puissance, adequacy, effectiveness, competence, powerfulness, competency, knack, aptitude, efficiency, suitability, endowment, bent, ability, sinew, potency, suitableness, talent, gift, power, genius, flair.

Powerlessness Sentence Examples:

• Mixed with it was supreme jealousy and a sentiment of absolute powerlessness.

• Master as he might be of his words and of his features, he profoundly felt the powerlessness to resist his enemies that he fell into day by day.