Noun:

Puissance,

puissances's Usage Examples:

de Martens, Recueil des traites conclus par la Russie avec les puissances etrangeres (St Petersburg, from 1878 still incomplete), which contains valuable historical introductions based on unpublished sources; A.

"On the history of the great European treaties generally, see the Histoire abregee des traites de paix entre les puissances de l'Europe, by Koch, as recast and continued by Scholl (1817 and 1818), and again by Count de Garden in 1848-1859, as also the Recueil manuel of De Martens and Cussy, continued by Geffcken.

Neumann, Recueil des traites conclus par l'Autriche avec les puissances etrangeres depuis 1763 (6 vols.

Synonyms:

power, powerfulness,

Antonyms:

powerlessness, uninterestingness, unpersuasiveness,