Synonyms for impotence
ˈɪm pə tənsim·po·tence

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1. impotence

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

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

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1. impotence

   Synonyms:
   incapacity, weakness, disqualification, disability

   Antonyms:
   capacity, vigor, ability, qualification

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1. powerlessness, impotence, impotencynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   powerlessness, impotency

   Antonyms:
   potency, potence

2. impotence, impotencynoun

   an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate

   Synonyms:
   powerlessness, impotency

   Antonyms:
   potency, potence

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1. • Quality
   • Sterility

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1. impotencenoun

   Synonyms:
   inability, disability, incapacity, incapability, incompetence, inefficiency, weakness, feebleness, imbecility, infirmity, frailty

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1. List of paraphrases for "impotence":

   powerlessness, helplessness, inability, hopelessness, weakness, incompetence

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1. impotence

   Synonyms:
   Astyphia

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1. 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.

2. Ana Mirelman:

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

3. Ernest Hemingway:

   All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

4. Johann Kaspar Lavater:

   Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

5. 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.