impotence; impotency

impotence; impotency is a Noun

Definition:

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