Antonyms for impotence
ˈɪm pə tənsim·po·tence

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1. impotence

   Antonyms:
   ability, aptitude, capability, capacity, cleverness, cogency, competency, dexterity, efficacy, efficiency, energy, expertness, faculty, force, might, power, qualification, readiness, skill, strength, susceptibility, talent

   Synonyms:
   awkwardness, dulness, feebleness, helplessness, imbecility, inability, inaptitude, incapacity, incompetence, inefficiency, maladroitness, stupidity, unskilfulness, weakness

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1. impotence

   Antonyms:
   capacity, vigor, ability, qualification

   Synonyms:
   incapacity, weakness, disqualification, disability

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1. • Quality
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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. powerlessness, impotence, impotencynoun

   the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble

   Antonyms:
   potency, potence

   Synonyms:
   powerlessness, impotency

2. impotence, impotencynoun

   an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate

   Antonyms:
   potency, potence

   Synonyms:
   powerlessness, impotency

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. impotence

   Synonyms:
   Astyphia

How to use impotence in a sentence?

1. Dejan Stojanovic:

   Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

2. John Fowles, The Magus:

   I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope -- an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

3. Ana Mirelman:

   Impotence, anguish, corruption, shame, these are some of the things I feel when I think of the Nisman case.

4. Angela Carter:

   Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

5. Johann Kaspar Lavater:

   Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

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