powerfulness

1. 1.

   possession of controlling influence

   “the deterrent power of nuclear weapons”

   “the power of his love saved her”

   “his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade”

   Synonymspower

   Antonymspowerlessness

   Broaderquality

   Narrowerpotencyvalencepreponderancepuissancepersuasivenessirresistibilityintereststrangleholdswayinfluence

Other forms of powerfulness

plural

powerfulnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about powerfulness

What does powerfulness mean?

powerfulness means "possession of controlling influence".

How many syllables are in powerfulness?

powerfulness has 4 syllables: po-wer-ful-ness. The stress falls on "wer".

What is another word for powerfulness?

Close synonyms include power. 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.

What is the opposite of powerfulness?

The recorded antonyms are powerlessness.

Is powerfulness a common word?

powerfulness 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.