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Meanings of powerlessness in English

Portuguese
impotência
Catalan
impotència
Spanish
impotencia

The quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble.

      impotência
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      1
      Turing experienced some disturbing side effects, including impotence, from the hormone treatment.
      Wired
      2
      Their isolation within the nationalist community is emphasised by their political impotence.
      The Irish Times
      3
      They are alone; this is the secret of their wretchedness and impotence.
      Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
      4
      The karate community feels sadness, frustration and above all impotence right now.
      The South African
      5
      Even when the feebleness and impotence of the successors of Ramses III.
      History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
      1
      Give the causes of sterility or impotency in the male and female.
      Common Diseases of Farm Animals
      2
      All at once the impotency and uncertainty of his position goaded him.
      The Masquerader
      3
      Then the two men stared at each other in blank impotency.
      The Mystery
      4
      Mrs. Cricklander was burning with rage and a sense of impotency.
      Halcyone
      5
      Will their successors falter and plead organic impotency in the nation?
      United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches: From Washington to...
      Usage of powerlessness in English
      1
      It's the universal script of mothers during times of powerlessness: offer food.
      The nobodies album
      2
      There is in Ireland, north and south, a grim sense of powerlessness.
      The Irish Times
      3
      The biggest problem for the Labour Party is that sense of powerlessness.
      BBC
      4
      Some alcoholics, for example, can only recover once they admit their powerlessness.
      The Power of Giving
      5
      During the following month Olofson lives with an increasing sense of powerlessness.
      The eye of the leopard
      6
      It creates a sense of dependency, of powerlessness apart from the group.
      Death du Jour
      7
      The powerlessness of Prussia was the measure of Austrian influence and prestige.
      A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878
      8
      It is an assertion of powerlessness as if it's a good thing.
      The Guardian
      9
      Living in a space of lack and powerlessness will only create more.
      Ebony
      10
      His feelings of powerlessness probably stem from whatever went on between them.
      Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
      11
      Tells about the seeming powerlessness of prison officials to stop A.B.'s murders.
      The new yorker
      12
      Mr. Cæsar looked at him angrily and pathetically, conscious of his powerlessness.
      Tell England / A Study in a Generation
      13
      All their frustrations, their feelings of impotence, humiliation, and powerlessness came out.
      The Land of Painted Caves
      14
      All beings acknowledge their powerlessness to praise Thee as beseemeth Thy station.
      Selections From the Writings of the Báb
      15
      At last Hans steps out of himself, out of his introverted powerlessness.
      The eye of the leopard
      16
      And if I speak bitterly, well, I am suffering from my powerlessness.
      New Grub Street
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