impotencenoun [ U ]
uk/ˈɪm.pə.təns/us/ˈɪm.pə.t̬əns/impotence noun [ U ] (LACK OF POWER)
lack of power to change or improve a situation:
political impotence
a sense of impotence
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Weakness and vulnerability
- Achilles heel
- at a low ebb idiom
- be (only) flesh and blood idiom
- be sb's poodle idiom
- chink in sb's armour idiom
- ebb
- faint
- indefensible
- lax
- limp
- malleable
- man of straw
- susceptible
- toothless
- totter
- underbelly
- unprotected
- unsteady
- vulnerable
- wraith
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impotence noun [ U ] (SEXUAL PROBLEM)
specialized medical a medical condition in which a man cannot have sex because his penis cannot become hard or stay hard:
Men sometimes suffer from impotence after a serious illness.
specialized medical a medical condition in which a man is unable to have children