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yes, particularly when a woman calls her husband 'impotent'.
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haroon rashidyes, particularly when a woman calls her husband 'impotent'.No. When it is true, then it is a statement, but if it is untrue, it is an insult.
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aseem31 Is impotent a swear word?No. In many contexts it simply means 'powerless'.
In the context of male sexuality impotence (the noun form) is practically a medical term referring to a diminished ability to have sexual relations, a condition that is more likely to occur in older men.
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Words like eg impotent, stupid, dishonest do not become swear words just because a man does not like them.
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There are a very limited number of basic swear words in English, perhaps ten or so at most (cf. George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words). There are practically an infinite number of insults.
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