IMPOTENCE


Meaning of IMPOTENCE in English

1.

Impotence is a lack of power to influence people or events.

...a sense of ~ 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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