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potency

noun
/ˈpəʊtənsi/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin potentia. Doublet of Potenza.

  1. borrowed from potentia

Definitions

  1. Power, authority.

    • 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.
    • Beset on either hand by potencies greater than himself, he becomes the battle-ground of immortals.
    • The doctor is the modern master of the mythological realm, the knower of all the secret ways and words of potency.

  2. The ability or capacity to perform something

  3. Concentration

    Concentration; strength

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Potentiality, ability, capacity.

    2. Cardinality.

The neighborhood

Derived

biopotency, bipotency, equipotency, idempotency, immunopotency, multipotency, oligopotency, orgastic potency, prepotency, subpotency, superpotency, tripotency, unipotency

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at potency. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at potency. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at potency

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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