Incapacity
noun
The condition of not being able to do something, unable to work.
His incapacity for work is due to his poor health conditions.
Often appears as...
- incapacity for work
- mental incapacity
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Formal
Technical
noun
The state of being unable to deal with something or do something.
She showed her incapacity to handle a difficult situation.
Often appears as...
- incapacity to cope
- incapacity to deal
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Colloquial
noun
The legal state of being unable to make decisions for oneself.
He was declared to have incapacity due to severe mental illness.
Often appears as...
- mental incapacity
- legal incapacity
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Formal
Academic
noun
The condition of not being able to do something, unable to work.
His incapacity for work is due to his poor health conditions.
Often appears as...
- incapacity for work
- mental incapacity
Usage tips
Formal
Technical
noun
The state of being unable to deal with something or do something.
She showed her incapacity to handle a difficult situation.
Often appears as...
- incapacity to cope
- incapacity to deal
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
The legal state of being unable to make decisions for oneself.
He was declared to have incapacity due to severe mental illness.
Often appears as...
- mental incapacity
- legal incapacity
Usage tips
Formal
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/2Work-Related Use
Often used to describe someone's ability to perform their job due to health.
After the accident, his incapacity made him unable to resume his duties.
Pro Tip 2/2Context Sensitive
Context indicates whether 'incapacity' refers to temporary or permanent condition.
Following his surgery, his incapacity was expected to last several weeks.
Pro Tip 1/2Work-Related Use
Often used to describe someone's ability to perform their job due to health.
After the accident, his incapacity made him unable to resume his duties.
Pro Tip 2/2Context Sensitive
Context indicates whether 'incapacity' refers to temporary or permanent condition.
Following his surgery, his incapacity was expected to last several weeks.
Pro Tip 1/2Work-Related Use
Often used to describe someone's ability to perform their job due to health.
After the accident, his incapacity made him unable to resume his duties.
Pro Tip 2/2Context Sensitive
Context indicates whether 'incapacity' refers to temporary or permanent condition.
Following his surgery, his incapacity was expected to last several weeks.
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The path toward...
departments business as usual to pass those thumbs down to the local level and they weren't getting there the feedback was that for every ten dollars we were spending in the education sector to was reaching the grassroot level that was almost eighty percent loss either with the incapacity to spend it or it
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Bill Clinton: TED Prize...
that while the headlines may all be -- the pessimistic headlines may say, well, we can't do this, that or the other thing because of corruption -- I think incapacity is a far bigger problem in poor countries than corruption, and feeds corruption.
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The path toward...
departments business as usual to pass those thumbs down to the local level and they weren't getting there the feedback was that for every ten dollars we were spending in the education sector to was reaching the grassroot level that was almost eighty percent loss either with the incapacity to spend it or it
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Bill Clinton: TED Prize...
that while the headlines may all be -- the pessimistic headlines may say, well, we can't do this, that or the other thing because of corruption -- I think incapacity is a far bigger problem in poor countries than corruption, and feeds corruption.
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.
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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
British Politician
The strength of the British constitution is supposedly its ability, because it is unwritten in key respects like the incapacity of the prime minister, to adapt to crises with flexibility and urgency.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
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Steve Schmidt
American Businessman
I've spent my life in the Republican party, it gives me no pleasure to say this. This party has demonstrated a complete incapacity to govern. Period.
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Immanuel Kant
German Philosopher
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Gene Kranz
American Public Servant
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.
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Polly Toynbee
English Journalist
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
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Robinson Jeffers
American Poet
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
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William Blake
English Poet
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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Anais Nin
American Author
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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Walter Gropius
German Architect
The intellectual bourgeois of the old Empire - tepid and unimaginative, mentally slow, arrogant, and incorrectly trained - has proven his incapacity to be the bearer of German culture. His benumbed world is now toppled, its spirit is overthrown, and is in the midst of being recast into a new mold.
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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis
British Politician
The strength of the British constitution is supposedly its ability, because it is unwritten in key respects like the incapacity of the prime minister, to adapt to crises with flexibility and urgency.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.
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Steve Schmidt
American Businessman
I've spent my life in the Republican party, it gives me no pleasure to say this. This party has demonstrated a complete incapacity to govern. Period.
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Immanuel Kant
German Philosopher
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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Gene Kranz
American Public Servant
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.
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Polly Toynbee
English Journalist
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
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Robinson Jeffers
American Poet
He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
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William Blake
English Poet
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
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Anais Nin
American Author
The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
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