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impotence

N การ ไร้สมรรถภาพ ทางเพศ  อาการ กามตายด้าน  infertility unproductiveness strength kan-rai-sa-mad-ta-phab-tang-phed

 

impotence

N ความอ่อนแอ  การ อ่อนกำลัง  powerlessness weaklessness power kwam-on-an

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IMPOTENCE, IMPOTENCY

n.[L. impotentia; in and potentia, from possum. See Power. ] 1. Want of strength or power, animal or intellectual; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility; defect of power, natural or adventitious, to perform any thing.
Some were poor by the impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots and cripples.
The impotence of exercising animal motion attends fevers.
2. Moral inability; the want of power or inclination to resist or overcome habits and natural propensities.
3. Inability to beget.
4. Ungovernable passion; a Latin signification. [Little used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

IMPOTENCE; IMPOTENCY

Im "po *tence, Im "po *ten *cy, n. Etym: [L. impotenia inability, poverty, want of moderation. See Impotent. ]

 

1. The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton.

 

2. Want of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] Milton.

 

3. (Law & Med. )

 

Defn: Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.

 

French Dictionary

impotence

impotence n. f. nom féminin Invalidité. : Cet accident l ’a condamné à l ’impotence.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

impotence

im po tence -ten cy /ɪ́mpət (ə )ns //-si /名詞 U 1 かたく 無力, 手も足も出ないこと (helplessness ); (身体の )虚弱 .2 (男性の )性的不能, インポ (テンツ ).