An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
IMPOTENCE
powerlessness, impotence, impotency
(noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
impotence, impotency
(noun) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
impotence (usually uncountable, plural impotences)
Powerlessness; incapacity.
Inability to copulate or beget children; sterility, erectile dysfunction, etc.
Source: Wiktionary
Im"po*tence, Im"po*ten*cy, n. Etym: [L. impotenia inability, poverty, want of moderation. See Impotent.]
1. The quality or condition of being impotent; want of strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility. Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots, and cripples. Hayward. O, impotence of mind in body strong! Milton.
2. Want of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] Milton.
3. (Law & Med.)
Definition: Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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TEMPORIZE
(verb) draw out a discussion or process in order to gain time; “The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote”
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