| 单词 | impuissance |
| 释义 | impuissance (once / 369354 pages) n When faced with a situation when you need to act, sometimes you freeze. That feeling is called impuissance, when you’re unable to make a move because you feel like you have no power. Thinking about world hunger, nuclear war, climate change, and vocabulary may inspire feelings of despair, like there’s nothing to be done and you might as well give up. Bless the French, because they came up with a single word that means exactly that: impuissance. It literally means “not powerful,” and feeling powerless is the key ingredient in impuissance. It’s tricky to pronounce, but imagine you’re in France and try it this way: im-PWIS-since. You’ll feel more powerful in no time. WORD FAMILYimpuissant: impuissance USAGE EXAMPLESWhy is it I dare Think but lightly of such impuissance? what stops my despair? Curry, S. S. (Samuel Silas), Browning and the Dramatic Monologue(2011) Why is it I dare Think but lightly of such impuissance? Reynolds, Myra, Selections from the Poems and Plays...(2010) I knew, impotent as I was, that I could play it—I could feel the sense of power tingling through my own impuissance. Murray, David Christie, The Making Of A Novelist—An Experim...(2010) n powerlessness revealed by an inability to act Syn|Hyper helplessness, weakness impotence, impotency, powerlessness the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble |
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