powerlessness

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The state or character of being powerless; absence or lack of power.

   “Near-synonym: helplessness”

   “In July 1717, a commission established by Orléans to adjudicate the issue had emphatically denied the successoral claims of the two brothers, and the Regent declared himself in a state of ‘happy powerlessness to alienate the crown's domain’.”