IMPUISSANCE Synonyms: 65 Similar and Opposite Words

impuissance

noun

Definition of impuissance

as in impotence

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Recent Examples of impuissance But all of that will be moot if Washington’s rushing attack is not significantly improved from the impuissance of last season. — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 14 June 2018

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Noun

According to reports, Brinkley would inject slivers of Billy goat gonads into human scrotums as a cure for impotence.

— Richard Wagoner, Daily News, 7 Sep. 2026
Once again, Gulf leaders were shocked not just by American disregard for their preferences but also by the revelation of American impotence.

— MARC LYNCH, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of impotence

Noun

There is a particular sort of helplessness that comes from knowing exactly how to fix a computer while being hundreds of miles away from it.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Sep. 2026
As Josephine’s mother, Claire, Chan is luminous with quiet sorrow, conveying maternal guilt and helplessness with precision.

— Clayton Davis, Variety, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of helplessness

Noun

New characters are introduced, many interesting details are offered, yet the narration never loses its focus, every sentence adding to the characters’ mounting sense of powerlessness in the face of such a tragic death.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Sep. 2026
This atmosphere of collective powerlessness offers one explanation for the conspiratorial thinking at the heart of Lamar versus Drake.

— Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of powerlessness

Noun

But unlike actual fatigues, this is cut to drape just right in all the right places and is clean of any distressing and patches.

— Alison Syrett Cleary, InStyle, 18 Sep. 2026
Beyond common cold symptoms like a cough, sore throat and runny nose, people sick with COVID-19 often have body aches, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing, headache, fatigue, fever and loss of taste and/or smell.

— Ann Sheehan, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of fatigue

Noun

Stranger by the Lake is a bookend of sorts to La Piscine, as both films seem to condemn their characters, and by extension, the counterculture surrounding them, to a lassitude incapable of any moral authority.

— Erik Morse, Vogue, 26 June 2025
The result of this lassitude is that cars still rule the streets.

— Justin Davidson, Curbed, 18 Apr. 2025

Definition of lassitude

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