POWERFULNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does powerfulness mean? 

• POWERFULNESS (noun)
  The noun POWERFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. possession of controlling influence

  Familiarity information: POWERFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWERFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Possession of controlling influence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

power; powerfulness

Context example:

his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade

Hypernyms ("powerfulness" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Attribute:

powerful (having great power or force or potency or effect)

powerless (lacking power)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "powerfulness"):

sway (controlling influence)

effectiveness; effectivity; effectuality; effectualness (power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect)

veto (the power or right to prohibit or reject a proposed or intended act (especially the power of a chief executive to reject a bill passed by the legislature))

discretion; free will (the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies)

disposal (the power to use something or someone)

jurisdiction; legal power ((law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law)

control (power to direct or determine)

repellant; repellent (the power to repel)

influence (a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc)

effectiveness; potency; strength (capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects)

chokehold; stranglehold; throttlehold (complete power over a person or situation)

interest; interestingness (the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.))

irresistibility; irresistibleness (the quality of being overpowering and impossible to resist)

persuasiveness; strength (the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty)

puissance (power to influence or coerce)

preponderance (superiority in power or influence)

valence; valency ((biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate)

valence; valency ((chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent))

Antonym:

powerlessness (the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble)

Derivation:

powerful (displaying superhuman strength or power)

powerful (having great power or force or potency or effect)

powerful (having great influence)