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impotence

noun

1. the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble (Freq. 1)

• Syn: ↑powerlessness, ↑impotency

• Ant: ↑power (for: ↑powerlessness), ↑powerfulness (for: ↑powerlessness)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑impotent (for: ↑impotency), ↑impotent, ↑powerless (for: ↑powerlessness)

• Hypernyms: ↑quality

• Hyponyms:

↑helplessness, ↑weakness, ↑impuissance, ↑unpersuasiveness, ↑uninterestingness, ↑voicelessness, ↑paper tiger, ↑ineffectiveness, ↑ineffectualness, ↑ineffectuality

2. an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate

• Syn: ↑impotency

• Ant: ↑potency (for: ↑impotency), ↑potence

• Derivationally related forms: ↑impotent (for: ↑impotency), ↑impotent

• Hypernyms: ↑sterility, ↑infertility

• Hyponyms: ↑erectile dysfunction, ↑male erecticle dysfunction, ↑ED

Useful english dictionary. 2012.