Inability vs Impotence - What's the difference?
inability | impotence | Related terms |
lack of the ability to do something; incapability
* 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
Powerlessness.
Inability to copulate or beget children; sterility, erectile dysfunction, etc.
Inability is a related term of impotence.
As nouns the difference between inability and impotence
is that inability is lack of the ability to do something; incapability while impotence is powerlessness.inability
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Noun
(inabilities)- The Premier League leaders did what many people thought was beyond them in their last European excursion, at the home of Borussia Dortmund, and they made light work of overcoming Marseille on a night when the one-sidedness was not reflected by their inability to add to Jack Wilshere's two goals.
impotence
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Alternative forms
* impotencyNoun
(-)- O, impotence of mind in body strong! — Milton.