'Impotence' definitions:
Definition of 'impotence'
(from WordNet)
noun
The quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble [syn: powerlessness, impotence, impotency] [ant: power, powerfulness]
noun
Definition of 'Impotence'
From: GCIDE
- Impotence \Im"po*tence\, Impotency \Im"po*ten*cy\, n. [L. impotenia inability, poverty, lack of moderation. See Impotent.]
- 1. 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. --Hayward. [1913 Webster]
- O, impotence of mind in body strong! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Lack of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law & Med.) Lack of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness; specifically, in males: the inability to achieve or sustain a penile erection; erectile dysfunction. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Synonyms of 'impotence'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- absurdity,
- adynamia,
- aimlessness,
- anemia,
- aridity,
- atony,
- barrenness,
- birth control,
- blah feeling,
- bloodlessness,
- bootlessness,
- cachexia,
- cachexy,
- carelessness,
- carnality,
- coldness,
- contraception,
- cowardice,
- dearth,
- debilitation,
- debility,
- dry womb,
- dryness,
- dullness,
- easiness,
- easygoingness,
- emptiness,
- enervation,
- etiolation,
- faintness,
- family planning,
- famine,
- fatigue,
- fatuity,
- fecklessness,
- feebleness,
- flabbiness,
- flaccidity,
- flesh,
- fleshliness,
- forcelessness,
- frailty,
- frigidity,
- fruitlessness,
- futility,
- helplessness,
- hollowness,
- impotency,
- imprecision,
- inadequacy,
- inanity,
- incompetence,
- indifference,
- ineffectiveness,
- ineffectuality,
- ineffectualness,
- inefficaciousness,
- inefficacy,
- ineptness,
- infecundity,
- infertility,
- lack of force,
- lack of influence,
- lack of magnetism,
- lack of personality,
- lack of power,
- languishment,
- languor,
- lassitude,
- laxity,
- laxness,
- leniency,
- libido,
- listlessness,
- looseness,
- loosening,
- love,
- lovemaking,
- marriage,
- meaninglessness,
- negligence,
- no say,
- nugacity,
- otiosity,
- overindulgence,
- overpermissiveness,
- permissiveness,
- planned parenthood,
- pointlessness,
- potency,
- powerlessness,
- profitlessness,
- prostration,
- purposelessness,
- rat race,
- relaxation,
- relaxedness,
- remissness,
- sensuality,
- sex drive,
- sexiness,
- sexual instinct,
- sexual urge,
- sexualism,
- sexuality,
- slackness,
- sloppiness,
- sluggishness,
- softness,
- sterileness,
- sterility,
- strengthlessness,
- the absurd,
- triviality,
- unauthoritativeness,
- unfertileness,
- unfruitfulness,
- uninfluentiality,
- unpersuasiveness,
- unproductiveness,
- unprofitability,
- unprofitableness,
- unrestraint,
- valuelessness,
- vanity,
- vicious circle,
- voluptuousness,
- weakliness,
- weakness,
- weariness,
- withered loins,
- worthlessness