impotence

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: im=po=tence

CIDE DICTIONARY

impotence, n. [L. impotenia inability, poverty, lack of moderation. See Impotent.].

•  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."  [1913 Webster]

  "O, impotence of mind in body strong!"  [1913 Webster]
•  Lack of self-restraint or self-control.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  Lack of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness;  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

impotence

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

ROGET THESAURUS

impotence

Impotence

N impotence, inability, disability, disablement, impuissance, imbecility, incapacity, incapability, inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity, indocility, invalidity, disqualification, inefficiency, wastefulness, telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy, paper tiger, Quaker gun, inefficacy, failure, helplessness, prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition, emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy, cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle, eunuch, powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective, inept, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, disqualified, unendowed, inapt, unapt, crippled, disabled, armless, harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable, paralytic, paralyzed, palsied, imbecile, nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless, emasculate, disjointed, out of joint, out of gear, unnerved, unhinged, water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless, laid on one's back, done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized, graveled, helpless, unfriended, fatherless, without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf, null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing, ineffectual, inadequate, inefficacious, der kranke Mann, desirous still but impotent to rise, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

Weakness

N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.

Unproductiveness

N unproductiveness, infertility, sterility, infecundity, masturbation, impotence, unprofitableness, waste, desert, Sahara, wild, wilderness, howling wilderness, unproductive, acarpous, inoperative, barren, addled, infertile, unfertile, unprolific, arid, sterile, unfruitful, infecund, sine prole, fallow, teemless, issueless, fruitless, unprofitable, null and void, of no effect.

Absence of Influence

N absence of influence, impotence, powerlessness, inertness, irrelevancy, uninfluential, ineffective, inconsequential, nugatory, unconducing, unconducive, unconducting to, powerless, irrelevant.