inability

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

incompetence incapacity impotence incapability weakness powerlessness unfitness lack unable failure disability deficiency incapable ignorance impossibility

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Antonyms

ability birr regency quirk power game

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Hypernyms

knowledge quality cognition noesis

Hyponyms

block incompetence illiteracy stupidity insufficiency incapacity

Phrases with the word

inability to get pregnant inability to make decisions inability to say no inability to have children inability to have a baby inability to have kids

Examples

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples. François de La Rochefoucauld

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. Sigmund Freud

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. H. P. Lovecraft

Depression is the inability to construct a future. Rollo May

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. John Updike

Close letter words and terms

Inaba inaba shidare maple Inabaknon inability in gardening inability in growing plants inability of