incapacity

Noun

Meaning

Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.

Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

inability disability disqualification incapability incompetency unfitness failure illness ignorance impairment blindness paralysis impossibility incompetence insufficiency
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Antonyms

capacity regency power control might field
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Hypernyms

inability incapability incapableness

Phrases with the word

incapacity for work incapacity benefit mental incapacity voting incapacity incapacity to see

Derivatives

Incapacities

Examples

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. Arthur Schopenhauer

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love. Anaïs Nin

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will. B. H. Liddell Hart

Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes. Fernando Pessoa

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. William Blake

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Close letter words and terms

incapacitating incapacitation incapacitative incapacity benefit incapacity for work incapsidation