potency

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Power, authority. countable,uncountable
    — I would to heauen I had your potencie, And you were Isabell: should it then be thus? No: I would tell what 'twere to be a Iudge, and what a prisoner.
  2. The ability or capacity to perform something countable,uncountable
  3. The ability or capacity to perform something; Sexual virility: the ability to become erect or achieve orgasm. countable,uncountable,usually
    — Pliny the Elder states that, to increase sexual potency, the right testis of an ass should be worn in a bracelet.
  4. Concentration; strength countable,uncountable
  5. Potentiality, ability, capacity. countable,uncountable
  6. Cardinality. countable,dated,uncountable

词形变化

potencies plural

词汇关系

衍生词
biopotency bipotency equipotency idempotency immunopotency multipotency oligopotency orgastic potency prepotency subpotency superpotency tripotency unipotency
相关词
impotence impotent potence potent potentate potential potentiality

词源

Borrowed from Latin potentia. Doublet of Potenza.
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