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incapability
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun incapability has 2 senses
- incapability(n = noun.cognition) incapableness - lack of potential for development; Array is a kind of inaptitude
- incapability(n = noun.attribute) incapableness - the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; Array is a kind of inability, unfitness
Antonym: capability
has particulars: incapacity
Antonym: capability
Derived forms adjective incapable4, adjective incapable1, adjective incapable3, adjective incapable2
CIDE DICTIONARY
incapability, n.
- The quality of being incapable; incapacity. Suckling. [1913 Webster]
- Lack of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
incapability
ad lib, disability, disablement, disqualification, extemporaneousness, imbecility, improvisation, inability, inadeptness, inadequacy, inaptitude, inaptness, inattentiveness, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, indexterity, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency, lack of preparation, legal incapacity, maladjustment, maladroitness, mediocrity, minority, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, pedestrianism, planlessness, rustiness, skill-lessness, thoughtlessness, unaptness, uncleverness, undeftness, undexterousness, undextrousness, unfitness, unfittedness, unintelligence, unpreparedness, unproficiency, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unschooledness, unskillfulness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, untrainedness, unworkmanlike, vulnerability, wardshipROGET THESAURUS
incapability
Impotence
N impotence, inability, disability, disablement, impuissance, imbecility, incapacity, incapability, inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity, indocility, invalidity, disqualification, inefficiency, wastefulness, telum imbelle, brutum fulmen, blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil, dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy, paper tiger, Quaker gun, inefficacy, failure, helplessness, prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration, deliquium, collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition, emasculation, orchiotomy, orchotomy, cripple, old woman, muff, powder puff, creampuff, pussycat, wimp, mollycoddle, eunuch, powerless, impotent, unable, incapable, incompetent, inefficient, ineffective, inept, unfit, unfitted, unqualified, disqualified, unendowed, inapt, unapt, crippled, disabled, armless, harmless, unarmed, weaponless, defenseless, sine ictu, unfortified, indefensible, vincible, pregnable, untenable, paralytic, paralyzed, palsied, imbecile, nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless, emasculate, disjointed, out of joint, out of gear, unnerved, unhinged, water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless, laid on one's back, done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized, graveled, helpless, unfriended, fatherless, without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf, null and void, nugatory, inoperative, good for nothing, ineffectual, inadequate, inefficacious, der kranke Mann, desirous still but impotent to rise, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
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