Disabled vs Impotent - What's the difference?
disabled | impotent |
Made incapable of use or action.
Having a disability, especially physical.
(legal) Legally disqualified.
One who is disabled (often used collectively as the disabled , but sometimes also singular).
(disable)
Lacking physical strength or vigor; weak.
Lacking in power, as to act effectively; helpless
* Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent (Freeman J. Dyson).
Incapable of sexual intercourse, often because of an inability to achieve or sustain an erection.
(of a male) Sterile.
(obsolete) Lacking self-restraint.
* Dryden
As adjectives the difference between disabled and impotent
is that disabled is made incapable of use or action while impotent is lacking physical strength or vigor; weak.As a noun disabled
is one who is disabled (often used collectively as the disabled , but sometimes also singular).As a verb disabled
is (disable).disabled
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* incapacitated * invalidAntonyms
* enabledNoun
(en noun)Verb
(head)impotent
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Impotent of tongue, her silence broke.
