potence

Questions about potence

What does potence mean?

potence means "the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse".

How many syllables are in potence?

potence has 2 syllables and divides as po-tence under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for potence?

Close synonyms include potency. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of potence?

The recorded antonyms are impotence.

Is potence a common word?

potence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.