英语词汇“potency”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	potency
释义	po·ten·cy \ˈpōt^ənsē, -si\ noun (-es) Etymology: Latin potentia potency, power, from potent-, potens potent, powerful + -ia -y 1. : the quality or state of being potent: a. : force, power, authority < if land armies ever lose their potency — Green Peyton > < a place of potency and sway o' the state — Shakespeare > < massed activity has a potency which individual effort can no longer claim — John Dewey > b. (1) : the ability or capacity to achieve a result or effect : effectiveness < the potency of prominence for good or ill is not to be denied — F.L.Mott > < the potency of religious faith to deal with fear, anxiety, and tension — Saturday Review > (2) : the ability or capacity to influence or affect thought or feeling < these lines … have, in addition, a very remarkable potency of suggestion — F.R.Leavis > < must not doubt the potency of our ideas — C.M.Fuess > < the charm and emotional potency of the music — Edward Sackville-West & Desmond Shawe-Taylor > c. (1) : chemical or medicinal strength or efficacy < the potency of the drink > < the potency of the drug > < the material had lost its potency by being exposed to light — Current Biography > (2) : physical or phenomenal intensity or force < figured out that less than 100 H-bombs of 1954 potency could lay down a saturation pattern of poisonous fallout — New Republic > d. : the ability to copulate — usually used of the male 2. a. : potentiality 1 < clung to our atoms as the inmost nucleus of matter and as containing the promise and potency of life and mind — W.L.Sullivan > < submitted … only to the finest human potencies, which is to say, to the potentiality of being human — New Republic > b. : the capacity for acting or being acted upon and hence for undergoing change < a ball has a potency for being thrown > < a teacher is necessary to lead the student to an actual knowledge of what he knew only in potency — Henri DuLac > c. : initial total inherent capacity for development of a particular kind prior to the establishment of limiting controls — compare competence 3. a. : one that has power or authority < it is his potency's wish — Rafael Sabatini > b. : a supernatural or demonic power; specifically : a minor often local god < pray to the potencies of rebirth and resurrection in nature and human love — Hans Meyerhoff >
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