"her powerlessness" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a feeling of helplessness or lack of control. Example: Despite her best efforts, Sally's powerlessness in the face of her boss's unreasonable demands left her feeling frustrated and demoralized.
"Until now she had been in this prison, and tomorrow she would be transferred to another one," Appelfeld writes, neatly capturing her powerlessness and despair.
Her use of the passive tense conveys her shocked recognition of her powerlessness – almost, her irrelevance – in the face of her child's arrival.
Her "powerlessness" gave way to moments of incredible resolve, her strength rooted in the most primordial of places: the love of her parents, and the lessons they had imparted to her.
All along there'd been a growing rift between the girls, one of them more interested in her high than in her beloved, the other grieving over her lost love, over her powerlessness when faced with the other's stubborn self-destruction.
There's a great bit in the book when she terrified Vincent Price [who was paying Bennett a visit]." She turned her powerlessness into a strange sort of tyranny that helped make her life bearable.
She writes with some bitterness, bordering at times on self-loathing, about her powerlessness against the force of sexual obsession, and she uses her music to reach a reckoning with old lovers and old loves.
"That she can't meet my every need, that she doesn't know everything I think, that frustrates her beyond all measure," Milla notices, still conscious, in her physical powerlessness, of her emotional power over her ward.
Karen's journey is one of heartbreak and humiliation, triumph and tragedy as she grapples with relationships, infertility, grief and her ultimate powerlessness to stop her disease, finally accepting it and discovering it to be a hidden gift as a catalyst for positive change.
As with Hamlet, her urgency is magnified by her utter powerlessness to avenge the wrong she sees.
They couldn't reconcile their vision of her as strong and powerful with her apparent powerlessness to leave.
The mother's account of her relative powerlessness in the father's and her own family are illustrative of the lack of options facing mothers who take care of children with SCD.
