potency

IPA: pˈoʊtʌnsi

Power, authority.
The ability or capacity to perform something
(usually of men) Sexual virility: the ability to become erect or achieve orgasm.
(of alcoholic drinks, of drugs) Concentration; strength
Potentiality, ability, capacity.
(mathematics, dated) Cardinality.

Examples of "potency" in Sentences

Without Allen and his 26.4 points, Seattle's offense had little potency from the perimeter.
Over-the-counter steroid creams, such as hydrocortisone, are low in potency and may not be effective in moderate to severe cases.
So I don't think that image necessarily will have the long-term potency as, for instance, the one that you mentioned from the Vietnam War.
One of the drivers of increasing cannabis potency is the fact that our draconian drug laws make it desirable to carry or possess less product.
Its potency is deliberate: faith is about calling on a higher power, one stronger than ourselves, and the very language we use helps inflate that strength.
The magnetic cure also functions as a key to reading the 1813 text, through a kind of slumber in which the outer, analytic potency is stilled so as to release the visionary forces within.
I've lost several dear friends to drug overdoses and none of them were suicidal: they died because street dope varies wildly in potency and the heroin they took was purer than they'd anticipated.
Spells fell dramatically in potency and power; people who should have died screaming and bursting into flames lingered on in empty paralysis for months and sometimes didn't die at all but reached full recovery.
What Barthes saw when he looked at his magazine image, was what he called the potency of myth in modern society, the way we are quick to overlook the evidence of our eyes to fixate on some more distant, idealized, cultural meaning.