impotency

• HYPHEN: im=po=ten=cy

CIDE DICTIONARY

impotency, 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]