| Main Entry: | impotence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sterility |
Synonyms: |
barrenness, erectile dysfunction, infecundity, infertility, unproductiveness |
| Notes: | impotence is the male's inability to copulate or get an erection; sterility is the inability of either a male or female to procreate |
| Main Entry: | impotence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness |
Synonyms: |
feebleness, helplessness, infirmity, powerlessness |
| Concept: | Impotence. |
| Category: | 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence; indocility; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency., telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; Quaker gun., inefficacy (inutility); failure., helplessness; prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchotomy., cripple, old woman, muff, mollycoddle.
-verbs
be impotent; not have a leg to stand on., vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou ["To want to break an eel at the knee" (French)], vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents ["To want to seize the moon with one's teeth" (French)]., collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, end in smoke (fail) [more]., render powerless; deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear., unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter., shatter, exhaust, weaken.
-adjectives
powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent; innefficient, ineffective; inept; unfit, unfitted; unqualified, disqualified; unendowed; inapt, unapt; crippled, disabled; armless., harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable., paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf., null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing; ineffectual (failing); inadequate; inefficacious (useless).
-phrases
der kranke Mann ["The sick man" (German)]; "desirous still but impotent to rise" [Shenstone].
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Antonyms: |
power |
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| Main Entry: | celibacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abstinence from sexual activity |
Synonyms: |
abstention, chastity, continence, frigidity, impotence, maidenhood, purity, singleness, virginity, virtue |
Antonyms: |
promiscuousness |
| Main Entry: | inability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disabling lack of talent, skill |
Synonyms: |
disqualification, failure, frailty, impotence, inadequacy, inaptitude, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, insufficiency, inutility, lack, necessity, powerlessness, shortcoming, unfitness, weakness |
| Notes: | debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something |
Antonyms: |
ability, capacity, competence, skill, talent |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
Synonyms: |
Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
Antonyms: |
strength, strong point |
| Main Entry: | barrenness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sterility |
Synonyms: |
childlessness, fruitlessness, impotence, infecundity, infertility, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness |
Antonyms: |
fecundity, fertility, fruitfulness |
| Main Entry: | infertility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unproductiveness |
Synonyms: |
barrenness, fruitless, impotence, sterile |
| Main Entry: | slowness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness |
Synonyms: |
feebleness, impotence, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | incapability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ineffectuality |
Synonyms: |
feebleness, helplessness, impotence, inadequacy, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, infirmity, powerlessness, uselessness, weakness* |