transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmpətəns ]
1.
Impotence is a lack of power to influence people or events.
...a sense of impotence in the face of deplorable events.
= powerlessness
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2.
Impotence is a man’s sexual problem in which his penis fails to get hard or stay hard.
Impotence affects 10 million men in the US alone.
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