powerlessness
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5.8
- noun
- /ˈpaʊərləsnəs/
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impotencia
- Many people feel a sense of powerlessness when faced with natural disasters that they cannot control.
- feeling of powerlessness
- sense of powerlessness
- powerlessness and helplessness
Do you have a sense of powerlessness or hopelessness?
- Do you have a sense of powerlessness or hopelessness?
- Our sense of powerlessness is overwhelming.
- And also, this bolsters the sense of powerlessness.
- And there is silence, a sense of powerlessness.
- It makes us very neurotic, it makes us very unhappy, and it's a sense of powerlessness.
- But I think that powerlessness is also a reminder that suffering is part of life.
- And we all sort of have this sense of powerlessness over our ability to control it or arrest it.
- But I also feel this sense of despair or powerlessness that anything will ever get done here given our social and political climate.
- And in and in some ways they exercise that powerlessness by making crazy trades.
- In a relationship, powerlessness comes through through many pathways.
- None of us in the West, I think under except or maybe some ridiculous circumstances can appreciate that sense of powerlessness.
- None of us in the West, I think under except under maybe some ridiculous circumstances, can appreciate that sense of powerlessness.
- But anger arises out of sense of powerlessness and it's a so they and there's often fear hiding underneath it.
- As if it's it's a resistance or it's a not being ready or it's a defiance or you haven't accepted your powerlessness.
Examples
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By the Twentieth Century, the harsh realities of poverty and powerlessness had produced massive social deterioration.
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But I think that powerlessness is also a reminder that suffering is part of life.
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And just the powerlessness you can feel when something so large is happening.
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And we all sort of have this sense of powerlessness over our ability to control it or arrest it.
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Talk about a feeling of total powerlessness.
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Our sense of powerlessness is overwhelming.
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So I think being lonely has a sense of powerlessness attached to it.
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Feelings of frustration and powerlessness emerged early in the lives of these offenders.
Academic text (1991) -
For the younger Somalis, a college degree represents a chance to avoid the powerlessness of life in the nonwhite working class.
Academic text (2017) -
The displacement described above exposes the powerlessness and vulnerability of African American heirs' property owners.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
177
2.8
Not able to do something you need to do
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1.4
Lack of physical or mental strength that makes someone less able to act
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3.8
A feeling of being unable to help yourself or change a situation
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7.4
A lack of power to make things happen
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5.4
Not able to do things because your body or mind does not work well
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7.9
Lack of power to change things
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6.0
Not being able to do something because you lack the ability
A situation where a person or group has little influence
A feeling of being unable to change things
A situation where people cannot take part in decisions that affect them
A lack of ability to do something
Antonyms
How Powerful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word powerlessness breaks into power, meaning 'ability to control or act', plus -less, meaning 'without', and -ness, meaning 'a state'. So powerlessness is the 'state of being without power', like a light with the power turned off that cannot work.