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potence

potence noun: power or strength; potency.

Noun

potence (countable and uncountable, plural potences)

  1. Power or strength; potency.
  2. A stud that acts as a support of a pivot in a watch or clock.

Forms of potence

pluralpotences

Origin of potence

Borrowed from Middle French potence (“power, a crutch”), from Latin potentia (“power, in Medieval Latin also crutch”), from potens (“powerful”); see potent.

Words formed from potence

Phrases with potence

Questions about potence

What does potence mean?
Potence means power or strength; potency.
What part of speech is potence?
Potence is a noun.
What is the plural of potence?
The plural of potence is potences.

Words near potence in the dictionary

  1. Potemkin village
  2. Potemkin villages
  3. Potemkinian
  4. Potempa
  5. Potempas
  6. potence
  7. potences
  8. potench
  9. potencies
  10. potency
  11. potender

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Adapted from Wiktionary: potence (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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