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say it: POH-tuhn-see
potency is a noun meaning "the power or right to give orders or make decisions". It is pronounced /ˈpoʊtənsi/ — POH-tuhn-see. It carries 4 recorded senses.
the power or right to give orders or make decisions
“he has the authority to issue warrants”
“deputies are given authorization to make arrests”
“a place of potency in the state”
capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects
“the toxin's potency”
“the strength of the drinks”
the inherent capacity for coming into being
the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for potency come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.