incapacity
noun/ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/
/ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/
[uncountable] (formal)- incapacity (of somebody/something) (to do something) lack of ability or skill synonym inability
- their incapacity to govern effectively
- the state of being too ill to do your work or take care of yourself
- She returned to work after a long period of incapacity.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French incapacité or late Latin incapacitas, from in- (expressing negation) + capacitas (from capax, capac- ‘that can contain’, from capere ‘take or hold’).
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