helplessness (uncountable)

1. The state of being helpless.
2. A feeling of inadequacy or impotence.
   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314 ↗, page 0105 ↗:

     Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile ; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

• impotence

• German: Hilflosigkeit
• Russian: беспо́мощность

• German: Hilflosigkeit