Thesaurus: impotency

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1. n. The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.
2. n. Want of self-restraint or self-control.
3. n. Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.
4. n. the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
5. n. an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate
6. 1. The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton. 2. Want of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] Milton. 3. (Law & Med.) Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.
7. n:100 n the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble n an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate