| n. | 1. | The quality or condition of being impotent; lack of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. |
| 2. | Lack of self-restraint or self-control. | |
| 3. | (Law & Med.) Lack of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness; |
| Noun | 1. | impotence - the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble Synonyms: impotency, powerlessness |
| 2. | impotence - an inability (usually of a male) to copulate Synonyms: impotency |
IMPOTENCE, med. jur. The incapacity for copulation or propagating the
species. It has also been used synonymously with sterility.
2. Impotence may be considered as incurable, curable, accidental or
temporary. Absolute or incurable impotence, is that for which there is no
known relief, principally originating in some malformation or defect of the
genital organs. Where this defect existed at the time of the marriage, and
was incurable, by the ecclesiastical law and the law of several of the
American states, the marriage may be declared void ab initio. Com. Dig.
Baron and Feme, C 3; Bac. Ab. Marriage, &c., E 3; 1 Bl. Com. 440; Beck's
Med. Jur. 67; Code, lib. 5, t. 17, l. 10; Poyn. on Marr. and Div. ch. 8; 5
Paige, 554; Merl. Rep. mot Impuissance. But it seems the party naturally
impotent cannot allege that fact for the purpose of obtaining a divorce. 3
Phillim. R. 147; S. C. 1 Eng. Eccl. R. 384. See 3 Phillim. R. 325; S. C. 1
Eng. Eccl. R. 408; 1 Chit. Med. Jur. 877; 1 Par. & Fonb. 172, 173. note d;
Ryan's Med. Jur. 95. to 111; 1 Bl. Com. 440; 2 Phillim. R. 10; 1 Hagg. R.
725. See, as to the signs of impotence, 1 Briand, Med. Leg. c. 2, art. 2,
Sec. 2, n. 1; Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales, art. Impuissance; and,
generally, Trebuchet, Jur. de la. Med. 100, 101, 102; 1 State Tr. 315; 8
State Tr. App. No. 1, p. 23; 3 Phillm. R. 147; 1 Hagg. Eccl. R. 523; Fodere,
Med. Leg. Sec. 237.
The inability to get or maintain an erection of the penis for sexual activity. Also called erectile dysfunction.
To dream that you are impotent, signifies a fear of losing power. Maybe you are afraid that you won't measure up to a particular person or task in your life. A more direct interpretation suggests that you may be having problems with sex in your waking life.ED, erectile dysfunction, impotency, infertility, male erecticle dysfunction, sterility