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
Example sentences :
  • 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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