Antonyms for potency
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : poht-n-see |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpoʊt n si |
Definition of potency
Origin :- mid-15c., from Latin potentia "power," from potentem "potent" (see potent).
- noun effectiveness
- The potency is in the inferior blood, simply because it is the predominating one.
- Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
- “Words are things,” says Mirabeau; and, to the poet, they are things of potency.
- Extract from : « The Emigrant » by Frederick William Thomas
- Besides, the fate of ordinary mortals should have no potency for such as we.
- Extract from : « The Dragon Painter » by Mary McNeil Fenollosa
- The silence was profound, yet somehow thrilling with potency.
- Extract from : « The Shadow World » by Hamlin Garland
- It is the righteous of the cause—the humanity of the cause—which constitutes its potency.
- Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
- If a man's wife dies, even, he loses all desire and all potency.
- Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith
- Desire and potency can exist only within the pair; never outside it.
- Extract from : « The Galaxy Primes » by Edward Elmer Smith
- Also the hour and the place lent their potency to her smile.
- Extract from : « Tutors' Lane » by Wilmarth Lewis
- The tales just quoted are examples of the potency of a symbol.
- Extract from : « The Science of Fairy Tales » by Edwin Sidney Hartland
- We can suppose that there was a certain faith in the potency of money.
- Extract from : « Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 » by Various
Synonyms for potency
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