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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, ... show more

Roget 160: weakness etc. adj.; debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence etc. 158; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality; ... show more

Roget 169: unproductiveness etc. adj.; infertility, sterility, infecundity; masturbation; impotence etc. 158; unprofitableness etc. (inutility) ... show more

Dutch: machteloosheid, onmacht
Polish: impotencja

2 impotence

An inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate.

synonym: impotency.

Dutch: impotentie
Polish: impotencja


Moby thesaurus: absurdity, adynamia, aimlessness, anemia, aridity, atony, barrenness, birth control, blah feeling, bloodlessness, bootlessness, cachexia, cachexy, carelessness, carnality, coldness, contraception, cowardice, dearth, debilitation ... show more.

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