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Potency
//ˈpəʊtənsi// noun
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Noun
- 1 Power, authority. countable, uncountable
"I would to heauen I had your potencie, And you were Isabell: should it then be thus? No: I would tell what 'twere to be a Iudge, and what a prisoner."
- 2 capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects wordnet
- 3 The ability or capacity to perform something countable, uncountable
- 4 the power or right to give orders or make decisions wordnet
- 5 The ability or capacity to perform something; Sexual virility: the ability to become erect or achieve orgasm. countable, uncountable, usually
"Pliny the Elder states that, to increase sexual potency, the right testis of an ass should be worn in a bracelet."
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- 6 the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse wordnet
- 7 Concentration; strength countable, uncountable
- 8 the inherent capacity for coming into being wordnet
- 9 Potentiality, ability, capacity. countable, uncountable
- 10 Cardinality. countable, dated, uncountable
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin potentia. Doublet of Potenza.
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