Incapacity

Noun

 * 1) The lack of a capacity; an inability
 * 2) * 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
 * So that it is not the insufficiency or incapacity of man's mind, but it is the remote standing or placing thereof that breedeth these mazes and incomprehensions;

Adjectives for Incapacity
permanent; social; innate; ruinous; witless; confessed.

Thesaurus
Urdummheit, brainlessness, caducity, decrepitude, disability, disablement, disqualification, foolishness, ignorance, imbecility, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapability, incapacitation, incompetence, incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficacy, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, infancy, inferiority, infirmity, insipidity, instability, insufficiency, invalidism, irrationality, lackbrainedness, lackwittedness, legal incapacity, low IQ, maladjustment, maladroitness, mediocrity, mental weakness, mindlessness, minority, pedestrianism, primal stupidity, reasonlessness, ricketiness, rustiness, senility, senselessness, shakiness, skill-lessness, slackmindedness, slackwittedness, thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfirmness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintellectuality, unintelligence, unproficiency, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsoundness, unsteadiness, unsturdiness, unsubstantiality, untrainedness, unwisdom, unwiseness, vapidity, wardship, wateriness, wishy-washiness, witlessness

Pronunciation

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Etymology
Negative in- + capacity

Translations

 * French: incapacité f.


 * Hebrew: נבצרות (nivtsarut)f.

Related terms

 * inoperancy