| NOUN | attribute | impotence, powerlessness, impotency | the quality of lacking strength or power |
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| state | impotence, impotency | an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate |
| Sounds | ih'mpahtahns | |
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| Rhymes | abeyance ... virulence: 273 rhymes with ahns... | |
| Meaning | The quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble. | |
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| Synonyms | powerlessness, impotency | |
| Narrower | helplessness, weakness, impuissance | powerlessness revealed by an inability to act |
| ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, ineffectuality | lacking the power to be effective | |
| paper tiger | The nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual | |
| uninterestingness | inability to capture or hold one's interest | |
| unpersuasiveness | inability to persuade | |
| voicelessness | Having no voice in the management or control of affairs | |
| Broader | quality | An essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone |
| Opposite | power, powerfulness | possession of controlling influence |
| Spanish | impotencia | |
| Catalan | impotència | |
| Adjectives | impotent | lacking power or ability |
| Meaning | An inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate. | |
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| Synonym | impotency | |
| Narrower | erectile dysfunction, male erecticle dysfunction, ED | impotence resulting from a man's inability to have or maintain an erection of his penis |
| Broader | sterility, infertility | The state of being unable to produce offspring |
| Opposite | potency, potence | The state of being potent |
| Spanish | impotencia | |
| Adjectives | impotent | (of a male) unable to copulate |
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