Impotence
['ɪmpətəns]
Definition
(noun.) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate.
Edited by Leopold--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Impotency
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inability, disability, incapacity, incapability, incompetence, inefficiency, weakness, feebleness, imbecility, infirmity, frailty.
Editor: Rosanne
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Incapacity, weakness, disqualification, disability
ANT:Capacity, vigor, ability, qualification
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Examples
- And in her conscious impotence she lay shivering, and hated her friend---- A ring at the door-bell caught her to her feet. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He lifted the stick, in spite of her being beyond his reach, and threw it with a hard effort which was but impotence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For (2) it would only build a wall around impotence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- You believed rather the tales you heard of our poltroonery and impotence of body and mind. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The girl only stared at him with a black look in which flared an unfathomable hell of knowledge, and a certain impotence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The monster saw my determination in my face, and gnashed his teeth in the impotence of anger. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
Checker: Sondra