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POWERFULNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Possession of controlling influence
Example:
his powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade
Synonyms:
power; powerfulness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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"):
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)
sway (controlling influence)
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))
effectiveness; potency; strength (capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects)
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)
