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名詞

powerlessness (usually uncountable, plural powerlessnesses)

1. The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.

   Synonym: impotence

   Antonyms: power, powerfulness

   Coordinate term: weakness

   Near-synonym: helplessness

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 47:

     In July 1717, a commission established by Orléans to adjudicate the issue had emphatically denied the successoral claims of the two brothers, and the Regent declared himself in a state of ‘happy powerlessness to alienate the crown's domain’.

参考

• helplessness

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “powerlessness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “powerlessness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.