Synonym: authorisation, authority, authorization, dominance, effectiveness, potence, potential, potentiality, say-so, strength. Similar words: potent, potential, potentially, tendency, agency, urgency, fluency, solvency. Meaning: ['pəʊtnsɪ] 
n. 1. capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects 2. the inherent capacity for coming into being 3. the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse 4. the power or right to give orders or make decisions.
n. 1. capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects 2. the inherent capacity for coming into being 3. the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse 4. the power or right to give orders or make decisions. 
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(1) This new drug's potency is not yet known.
(2) They testify to the extraordinary potency of his personality.
(3) The myth of male superiority was losing its potency.
(4) Alcohol increases the drug's potency.
(5) He owed his popular support to the potency of his propaganda machine.
(6) Sunscreen can lose its potency if left over winter in the bathroom cabinet.
(7) The drug will lose its potency when exposed to moisture.
(8) Mass unemployment had lost its old political potency.
(9) Perhaps they don't really lose potency at this age.
(10) He seems obsessed by the sheer potency of poetry.
(11) Beware of inconsistent potency with this product.
(12) A useful but not completely reliable indicator of potency.
(13) With a sense of the mystic potency of humankind.
(14) She was given a high potency of opium which appeared to be the indicated remedy for this numb state.
(15) Stripped of brand identity(sentencedict.com), the blatant potency of advertising imagery is laid bare.
(16) I vacillated between the false potency of scorn and feelings of ineptitude.
(17) Therein probably lies the potency of the Gaullist concept of state broadcasting.
(18) Consuming large amounts of alcohol can significantly reduce a man's potency.
(19) Alcohol abuse in men can cause loss of sex drive and reduced potency.
(20) If you keep a medicine too long, it may lose its potency.
(21) This happened to a man with eczema and asthma who was treated with a low potency of sulphur which improved both symptoms.
(22) I myself have watched many elders labour over their paintings and pour spiritual potency into these creations.
(23) The studies were designed to evaluate the H pylori eradication potency of the various regimens and the post-therapeutic course of ulcer disease.
(24) When I was growing up, I saw this kind of rebellion and assault as potency.
(25) The dispiriting memories of the seventies were fading. Mass unemployment had lost its old political potency.
(26) She felt much better for about 6 weeks, but it was clear that she needed a higher potency in order to cure.
(27) One tablet or ten tablets taken as one dose still only gives one dose of the potency, does it not?
(28) One point that may help you is that the lower the potency the more frequently it is likely to need repeating.
(29) With a film in development, the myth shows no sign of losing its potency.
(30) He found that by giving the salt in low potency there was often an improvement in the patient's well-being.
More similar words: potent, potential, potentially, tendency, agency, urgency, fluency, solvency, currency, pungency, frequency, emergency, insolvency, presidency, efficiency, sufficiency, equivalency, inefficiency, sentence, penitence, subsistence, pot, spot, potato, spotted, on the spot, apothecary, hypothesis, fancy, note.