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inability
The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability, capacity, means, or power
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  1. The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability, capacity, means, or power
  2. Lack of ability or means.
incapability
The condition of being incapable
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  1. The condition of being incapable
incapacity
Inadequate strength or ability; lack of capacity.
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  1. Inadequate strength or ability; lack of capacity.
  2. A lack of physical or mental ability or standing.
  3. The lack of a capacity; an inability
incompetence
The quality or state of being incompetent.
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  1. The quality or state of being incompetent.
  2. Inability to perform; lack of competence; ineptitude.
incompetency
Absence of legal capacity to perform certain acts, such as testifying at a trial.
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  1. Absence of legal capacity to perform certain acts, such as testifying at a trial.
  2. The condition of being incompetent
  3. Incompetence.
impotence
The quality or condition of being impotent.
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  1. The quality or condition of being impotent.
inadequacy
Quality, state, or instance of being inadequate
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  1. Quality, state, or instance of being inadequate
  2. A shortage of required material.
  3. A lack of competence or ability.
incapability
The condition of being incapable
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  1. The condition of being incapable
ineffectiveness
The condition of being ineffective
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  1. The condition of being ineffective
ineffectuality
The state or condition of being ineffectual.
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  1. The state or condition of being ineffectual.
ineffectualness
Inefficacy
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  1. Inefficacy
  2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
inefficacy
Lack of efficacy; inability to produce the desired effect
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  1. Lack of efficacy; inability to produce the desired effect
  2. The condition of being ineffective
  3. The state or quality of being incapable of producing a desired effect or result.
uselessness
The quality of being useless
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  1. The quality of being useless
Find another word for powerlessness. In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for powerlessness, like: inability, incapability, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, helplessness, impotence, inadequacy, incapability, ineffectiveness and ineffectuality.

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  • Nothing points more to the helplessness of the natives' condition than their powerlessness against these foes.

  • The result was a cabinet, strong much beyond the average in its individual members, but weak to powerlessness in the diversity of its composition.

  • Mahratta invasions from central India, piratical devastations on the sea-board, banditti who marched about the interior in bodies of 50,000 men, floods which drowned the harvests of whole districts, and droughts in which a third of the population starved to death, kept alive a sense of human powerlessness in the presence of an omnipotent fate.

  • Champagne; while the treaty of May 20th, 1186, was his first rough lesson to the feudal leagues, which he had reduced to powerlessness, and to the subjugated duke of Burgundy and count of Flanders.

  • It is very remarkable that, in spite of the powerlessness of the confederacy, the last recorded event in its history is the steady loyalty of Tenedos, which gave money to Athens about 340 (Hicks and Hill, 146).

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