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This paper is part II of a study on cardinals that are characterizable by a Scott sentence, continuing previous work of the author. A cardinal κ is characterized by a Scott sentence ${\varphi }_{ℳ}$ if ${\varphi }_{ℳ}$ has a model of size κ, but no model of size κ⁺. The main question in this paper is the following: Are the characterizable cardinals closed under the powerset operation? We prove that if ${\aleph }_{\beta }$ is characterized by a Scott sentence, then $2^{{\aleph }_{\beta +\beta ₁}}$ is (homogeneously) characterized by a Scott sentence, for all 0 < β₁ < ω₁....