impotency

DEFINITIONS OF: impotency

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; helplessness, impuissance, weakness
powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; unpersuasiveness
inability to persuade; uninterestingness
inability to capture or hold one's interest; voicelessness
having no voice in the management or control of affairs; paper tiger
the nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual; ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, ineffectualness
lacking the power to be effective; dullness
the quality of lacking interestingness; heaviness, ponderousness
an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency; inefficaciousness, inefficacy
a lack of efficacy

Type of:: quality
an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

Antonyms:: potence, potency
the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse

Types:: ED, erectile dysfunction, male erecticle dysfunction
impotence resulting from a man's inability to have or maintain an erection of his penis

Type of:: infertility, sterility
the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate

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