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Powerlessness vs Incapacity - What's the difference?

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Powerlessness is a related term of incapacity.


As nouns the difference between powerlessness and incapacity

is that powerlessness is the state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power while incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability.

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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    incapacity

    English

    Noun

    (incapacities)
  • The lack of a capacity; an inability
  • * 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
  • So that it is not the insufficiency or incapacity of man's mind, but it is the remote standing or placing thereof that breedeth these mazes and incomprehensions;