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Definition: Impuissance |
ImpuissanceNoun1. Powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of their weakness the group remains highly active". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Impuissance \Im*pu"is*sance\, noun. [Compare to the French expression impuissance.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: ImpuissanceSynonyms: helplessness (n), weakness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Impotence | Noun: impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity; indocility; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Impuissance |
| Non-English Usage: "Impuissance" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (failure, fainting, helplessness, impotency, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacity, powerlessness, weakness). |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
impuissance | 23 |
impuissance sexuelle | 3 |
impuissance masculine sexuelle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "impuissance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Italian | impotenza (impotence, impotency, powerlessness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | impuissanceay.(various references) | |
Swedish | svaghet (debility, dotage, fault, flaw, foible, fragility, frailty, impairment, infirmity, loophole, operating system security flaw, security flaw, weakness), maktlöshet (impotence, impotency), kraftlöshet (debility, droop, enervation, impotence, impotency, inanition). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự yếu ớt (debility, tenderness), sự bất lực (debility, inability, incapability, shiftlessness). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "impuissance": impuissances. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "impuissance" (pronounced 'Im*pu"is*sance'): Abaisance, Chevisance, Complaisance, Connusance, Conversance, Counterfesance, Defeasance, Disobeisance, Jouissance, malfeasance, misfeasance, Non-feasance, Nuisance, Obeisance, Plaisance, Puissance, Renaissance, Suffisance. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-n-p-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: campiness, messianic, musicians, puissance. | |
-3 letters: amnesics, animuses, auspices, caesiums, campuses, cuisines, episcias, escapism, inscapes, issuance, meniscus, misspace, musician, panicums, pemicans, pianisms, piscinae, piscinas, scampies, sinapism. | |
-4 letters: acumens, amnesic, auspice, caesium, camises, caseins, cesiums, cinemas, cuisine, encamps, episcia, iciness, impasse, incases, incises, incuses, inscape, inseams, menisci, minuses, miscues, mispens, panicum, pansies, pemican, pianism, piscina, piscine, pneumas, puisnes, pumices, saimins, samisen, sapiens, seismic, simians, supines, uncases, unseams, usances. | |
-5 letters: acinus, acumen, aecium, amices, amicus, amines, aminic, amuses, anemic, animes, animis, animus, anises, anisic, anuses, apices, apneic, aspens, aspics, assume, camise, campus, casein, casini, causes, census, cesium, cinema, cuisse, cumins, cuspis, encamp, iceman, imines, incase, incise, incuse, inseam, manics, manses, mensas, mesian, messan, minces, miscue, mispen, misuse, mucins, muscae, musics, neumic, niseis, panics, passim, pauses, pecans, pianic, pneuma, puisne, pumice, saices, saimin, sanies, sansei, sauces, scampi, scamps, scapes, scaups, scenas, seisin, semina, sensum, sepias, simian, sneaps, snipes, spaces, speans, spicae, spicas, spices, spines, spumes, sumacs, supine, umiacs, uncaps, uncase, unciae, unseam, upases, usance, usneas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-n-p-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: impuissances. | |
+2 letters: epicureanisms. | |
+3 letters: republicanisms, supercriminals. | |
+5 letters: superromanticism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 70 75 69 73 73 61 6E 63 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01110101 01101001 01110011 01110011 01100001 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p u i s s a n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 0075 0069 0073 0073 0061 006E 0063 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4379828775858567806971 |
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