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impotency

impotency noun: impotence.

Noun

impotency (usually uncountable, plural impotencies)

  1. (dated, usually) impotence
    • Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples.a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC
    • Byron hasn't been the same since the impotency set in ten years ago, poor bludger.1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 188

impotency meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Assamese

impotency in Tamil

மலட்டுத்தன்மை

impotency in Telugu

impotency
నపుంసకత్వము napuṁsakatvamu

impotency in Kannada

ನಪುಂಸಕತ್ವ, ನಿರ್ವೀರ್ಯತೆ

impotency in Assamese

impotency
ধ্বজ dhoz

Forms of impotency

pluralimpotencies

Questions about impotency

What does impotency mean?
Impotency means impotence.
What is impotency in Tamil?
Impotency in Tamil is மலட்டுத்தன்மை. See Impotency meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is impotency?
Impotency is a noun.
What is the plural of impotency?
The plural of impotency is impotencies.

Words near impotency in the dictionary

  1. impot
  2. impotable
  3. impotence
  4. impotences
  5. impotencies
  6. impotency
  7. impotent
  8. impotentia coeundi
  9. impotentia generandi
  10. impotently
  11. impotentness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: impotency (page history and authors); impotency (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); నపుంసకత్వము (Telugu) (page history and authors); impotency (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ধ্বজ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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