Definitions for potency

potency po·ten·cy

Spelling: [poht-n-see]
IPA: /ˈpoʊt n si/

Potency is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in potency (cenopty).

Definitions for potency

noun

  1. the state or quality of being potent.
  2. power; authority.
  3. efficacy; effectiveness; strength.
  4. capacity to be, become, or develop; potentiality.
  5. a person or thing exerting power or influence.
  6. Mathematics. cardinal number (def 2).

Origin of potency

From the Latin word potentia, dating back to 1530-40. See potent1, -ency

Examples for potency

The silence was profound, yet somehow thrilling with potency.

It is clear that potency matters, as Eric and Bonnie Kaplan discovered.

The problem comes at this point because the liquid loses its potency within an hour even in ideal conditions.

If one word—soccer (or football)—sums up Uruguay, two words—Luis Suárez—capture the potency of the Uruguayan game.

It is the righteous of the cause—the humanity of the cause—which constitutes its potency.

The potency is in the inferior blood, simply because it is the predominating one.

We need to believe that Taylor's actions yesterday are pure, or the transparency loses its potency.

Besides, the fate of ordinary mortals should have no potency for such as we.

“Words are things,” says Mirabeau; and, to the poet, they are things of potency.

Both are literally depictions of magical air, evocative of movement and potency stirring inside a writhing cloud.

Word Value for potency
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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