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Powerlessness vs Incapacitation - What's the difference?

powerlessness | incapacitation |

As nouns the difference between powerlessness and incapacitation

is that powerlessness is the state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power while incapacitation is the act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.

powerlessness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.

    • Synonyms

    * impotence

    See also

    * helplessness

    References

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    incapacitation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
  • * 1822 , , The Best Letters of Charles Lamb , LXVIII. To Wordsworth. March 20:
    • I dare not whisper to myself a pension on this side of absolute incapacitation and infirmity, till years have sucked me dry.
  • * 2006 Dec. 14, , " Johnson's Illness Puts Control of the Senate in Doubt," Time :
    • The incapacitation of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has put all eyes in Washington on what is normally a little-noticed Senate vote now scheduled for Jan. 4.

    Synonyms

    * disablement