"powerlessness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: powerlessnesses [plural]
Etymology: From powerless + -ness. Etymology templates: {{af|en|powerless|-ness}} powerless + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} powerlessness (usually uncountable, plural powerlessnesses)
  1. The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: impotence, weakness Related terms: helplessness Translations (The state or character of being powerless): бяссі́лле (bjassíllje) [neuter] (Belarusian), 無力 (Chinese Mandarin), 无力 (wúlì) (Chinese Mandarin), bezmocnost [feminine] (Czech), voimattomuus (Finnish), impuissance [feminine] (French), Machtlosigkeit [feminine] (German), असमर्थता (asmarthatā) [feminine] (Hindi), अक्षमता (akṣamtā) [feminine] (Hindi), अशक्ति (aśakti) [feminine] (Hindi), tehetetlenség (Hungarian), gyengeség (Hungarian), erőtlenség (Hungarian), easpa cumhachta [feminine] (Irish), neamhchumhacht [feminine] (Irish), neamhéifeacht [feminine] (Irish), 無力 (muryoku) (alt: むりょく) (Japanese), impotentia (Latin), немоќ (nemoḱ) (Macedonian), neuchummaght [feminine] (Manx), mieretanga (Maori), ناتوانی (nâtavâni) (Persian), ضعف (za'f) (Persian), bezsiła [feminine] (Polish), bezsilność [feminine] (Polish), бесси́лие (bessílije) [neuter] (Russian), अक्षमा (akṣamā) [feminine] (Sanskrit), अशक्ति (aśakti) [feminine] (Sanskrit), impotencia [feminine] (Spanish), vanmakt [common-gender] (Swedish), maktlöshet [common-gender] (Swedish), безси́лля (bezsýllja) [neuter] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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        },
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
          "word": "gyengeség"
        },
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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        },
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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        },
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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        },
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          "alt": "むりょく",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "muryoku",
          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
          "word": "無力"
        },
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
          "word": "impotentia"
        },
        {
          "code": "mk",
          "lang": "Macedonian",
          "roman": "nemoḱ",
          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
          "word": "немоќ"
        },
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          "code": "gv",
          "lang": "Manx",
          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "neuchummaght"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
          "word": "mieretanga"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "nâtavâni",
          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
          "word": "ناتوانی"
        },
        {
          "code": "fa",
          "lang": "Persian",
          "roman": "za'f",
          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
          "word": "ضعف"
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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          "word": "бесси́лие"
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          "word": "अक्षमा"
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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          "word": "impotencia"
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          "code": "sv",
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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          "word": "vanmakt"
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          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "bezsýllja",
          "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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          "word": "безси́лля"
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      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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      "alt": "むりょく",
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      "roman": "muryoku",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "word": "impotentia"
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      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "nemoḱ",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "word": "немоќ"
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      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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      "word": "neuchummaght"
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      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "word": "mieretanga"
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      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "nâtavâni",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "word": "ناتوانی"
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      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "za'f",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bezsiła"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "bezsilność"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bessílije",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "бесси́лие"
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      "code": "sa",
      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "akṣamā",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
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      "word": "अक्षमा"
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      "lang": "Sanskrit",
      "roman": "aśakti",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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      "word": "अशक्ति"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "impotencia"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
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      "word": "vanmakt"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "maktlöshet"
    },
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "bezsýllja",
      "sense": "The state or character of being powerless",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "безси́лля"
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  "word": "powerlessness"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.