Impotence
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Powerlessness. Erectile dysfunction.
Example sentence: The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
Powerlessness
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.
Example sentence: The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America. If we fail, there are those who will see violence as the shortcut to change.