incapacity
Americannoun
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lack of ability, qualification, or strength; incapability.
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Law. lack of the legal power to act in a specified way or ways.
noun
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lack of power, strength, or capacity; inability
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law
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legal disqualification or ineligibility
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a circumstance causing this
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Etymology
Origin of incapacity
From the Late Latin word incapācitās, dating back to 1605–15. See in- 3, capacity
Example Sentences
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A basket of benefits have, by law, to go up in line with prices - such as the Personal Independence Payment, Disability Living Allowance, Carers' Allowance and Incapacity Benefit.
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2022
Work and Pensions Select Committee chairman Dame Anne Begg told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the ESA seemed to be doing no better than Incapacity Benefit.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2014
One reason Incapacity Benefit spending has decreased is because new claimants now receive Employment and Support Allowance instead.
From The Guardian • Dec. 4, 2012
A protest against retesting Incapacity Benefit recipients outside an assessment centre run by Atos Healthcare in London.
From The Guardian • Aug. 17, 2012
On all these useless, unproductive lands is written the word "Incapacity."
From The Village Rector by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
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