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inability
[ in-uh-bil-i-tee ]
noun
- lack of ability; lack of power, capacity, or means:
his inability to make decisions.
Synonyms: incapability, incompetence, impotence, incapacity
inability
/ ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ /
noun
- lack of ability or means; incapacity
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Word History and Origins
Origin of inability1
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Example Sentences
But the inability to measure progress in the ISIS campaign is widespread.
The inability to do anything besides binge-watch entire seasons on Netflix.
I recognize my inability to truly understand these events in the same context or view these events through exactly the same prism.
The scriptural Moses is defined by his frailties, his inability to act.
The second is strangled tongue disease, the English inability to express real feelings in conversation.
To talk of an excess of labor, or an inability to employ it, in such a country as Ireland, is to insult the general understanding.
Mere hastiness or slovenliness of work is not identical with the effect of inability to achieve mechanical neatness.
And the truth of the depravity of man and his inability to restore himself to God's favour ought to be maintained.
Walter Fetherston was ever regretting his inability to put any of the confidential information he acquired into his books.
The impatience of restraint you speak of and her very inability to brook opposition can be turned to good account now.
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