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impotency
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun impotency has 2 senses
- impotency(n = noun.attribute) impotence, powerlessness - the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble; Array is a kind of quality
- impotency(n = noun.state) impotence - an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate; Array has particulars: ed, erectile dysfunction, male erecticle dysfunction
has particulars: helplessness, impuissance, weakness, unpersuasiveness, uninterestingness, voicelessness, paper tiger, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness
Derived form adjective impotent1
is a kind of infertility, sterility
Derived form adjective impotent2
Antonym: potency
CIDE DICTIONARY
impotency, n. [L. impotenia inability, poverty, lack of moderation. See Impotent.].
- The quality or condition of being impotent; lack of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. [1913 Webster]"Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples." [1913 Webster]"O, impotence of mind in body strong!" [1913 Webster]
- Lack of self-restraint or self-control. Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Lack of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness; [1913 Webster]
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