What does incapacity mean?
Definitions for incapacity
ˌɪn kəˈpæs ɪ tiin·ca·pac·i·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
incapacitynoun
lack of intellectual power
incapacitynoun
lack of physical or natural qualifications
Wiktionary
incapacitynoun
The lack of a capacity; an inability
Etymology: Negative in- + capacity
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Incapacitynoun
Inability; want of natural power; want of power of body; want of comprehensiveness of mind.
Etymology: incapacité, Fr. in and capacity.
It chiefly proceedeth from natural incapacity, and genial indisposition. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.
Admonition he imputes either to envy, or else ignorance and incapacity of estimating his worth. Govern. of the Tongue.
The inactivity of the soul is its incapacity to be moved with any thing common. Arbuthnot.
Wikipedia
incapacity
Legal capacity is a quality denoting either the legal aptitude of a person to have rights and liabilities (in this sense also called transaction capacity), or altogether the personhood itself in regard to an entity other than a natural person (in this sense also called legal personality).
ChatGPT
incapacity
Incapacity is a state or condition in which someone is unable to think, behave, or function normally due to a physical, mental, legal, or other disability. It often describes situations where people are unable to make their own decisions or accomplish certain tasks independently.
Webster Dictionary
Incapacitynoun
want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability
Incapacitynoun
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
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of incapacity in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of incapacity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of incapacity in a Sentence
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.
Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of carelessness, incapacity, or neglect.
By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe.
The verdict was extremely strict about proving psychological incapacity to resist.
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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