impotence
noun
1 impotence
The quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble.
synonyms: impotency, powerlessness.
Roget 175a:
impotence
etc.
158;
powerlessness;
inertness
etc.
172;
irrelevancy
etc.
10.
Roget 158:
impotence;
inability,
disability;
disablement,
impuissance,
imbecility;
incapacity,
incapability;
inaptitude,
ineptitude,
incompetence,
unproductivity†;
indocility†;
invalidity,
disqualification;
inefficiency,
wastefulness.
telum imbelle [Lat.],
brutum fulmen [Lat.],
blank,
blank cartridge,
flash in the pan,
vox et proeterea nihil [Lat.],
dead letter,
bit of waste paper,
dummy;
paper tiger;
Quaker gun.
inefficacy
etc.
(inutility)
645†;
failure
etc.
732.
helplessness
etc.
adj.;
prostration,
paralysis,
palsy,
apoplexy,
syncope,
sideration†,
deliquium [Lat.],
collapse,
exhaustion,
softening of the brain,
inanition;
emasculation,
orchiotomy [Med.],
orchotomy [Med.].
cripple,
old woman,
muff,
powder puff,
creampuff,
pussycat,
wimp,
mollycoddle;
eunuch.
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Roget 160:
weakness
etc.
adj.;
debility,
atony†,
relaxation,
languor,
enervation;
impotence
etc.
158;
infirmity;
effeminacy,
feminality†;
fragility,
flaccidity;
inactivity
etc.
683.
anaemia,
bloodlessness,
deficiency of blood,
poverty of blood.
declension of strength,
loss of strength,
failure of strength;
delicacy,
invalidation,
decrepitude,
asthenia†,
adynamy†,
cachexy†,
cachexia [Med.],
sprain,
strain.
reed,
thread,
rope of sand,
house of cards.
softling†,
weakling;
infant
etc.
129;
youth
etc.
127.
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Roget 169:
unproductiveness
etc.
adj.;
infertility,
sterility,
infecundity†;
masturbation;
impotence
etc.
158;
unprofitableness
etc.
(inutility)
645.
waste,
desert,
Sahara,
wild,
wilderness,
howling wilderness.
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Dutch: machteloosheid, onmacht
Polish: impotencja
2 impotence
An inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate.
synonym: impotency.
Dutch: impotentie
Polish: impotencja
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