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When the body files a polite but firm declination of services.
means The inability to perform an expected action—most famously sexual, but broadly any lack of power or effectiveness.
from From Latin impotentia, 'lack of power,' built from in- (not) plus potens (able, powerful)—the same root that gives us potent and potential, just with the lights off.
Not just bedroomOriginally meant powerlessness of any kind.
Same rootShares DNA with 'potent' and 'potentate.'
Royal cousinPotens also fathered the word 'omnipotent.'