impuissance

Questions about impuissance

What does impuissance mean?

impuissance means "powerlessness revealed by an inability to act".

How many syllables are in impuissance?

impuissance has 4 syllables and divides as im-pu-is-sance under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for impuissance?

Close synonyms include helplessness, weakness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is impuissance a common word?

impuissance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for impuissance come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.