Impotence vs Incapacity - What's the difference?
impotence | incapacity | Synonyms |
Powerlessness.
Inability to copulate or beget children; sterility, erectile dysfunction, etc.
The lack of a capacity; an inability
* 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
Impotence is a synonym of incapacity.
As nouns the difference between impotence and incapacity
is that impotence is powerlessness while incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability.impotence
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Alternative forms
* impotencyNoun
(-)- O, impotence of mind in body strong! — Milton.
incapacity
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Noun
(incapacities)- So that it is not the insufficiency or incapacity of man's mind, but it is the remote standing or placing thereof that breedeth these mazes and incomprehensions;