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incapacity
[ in-kuh-pas-i-tee ]
noun
- lack of ability, qualification, or strength; incapability.
- Law. lack of the legal power to act in a specified way or ways.
incapacity
/ ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪtɪ /
noun
- lack of power, strength, or capacity; inability
- law
- legal disqualification or ineligibility
- a circumstance causing this
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Word History and Origins
Origin of incapacity1
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Example Sentences
Will our incapacity to govern efficiently and effectively further weaken our image as a global leader?
Cases linked to mental incapacity are the lone exception, judges have ruled.
Part of this absence of empathy is an incapacity for self-examination.
People will not fail to attribute it to the incapacity of the Ministers, and possibly to their malevolence.
But his known incapacity held him down to a secondary place.
Charges of incapacity, cruelty, brutal insolence, were hurled backward and forward.
Doubt arises ordinarily from laziness, weakness, indifference, or incapacity.
In none of their many sovereignties had the incapacity of the Bourbons been more completely demonstrated than in Spain.
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