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[in-uh-bil-i-tee]

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noun

lack of ability; lack of power, capacity, or means: his inability to make decisions.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English inabilite < Medieval Latin inhabilitās. See in-³, ability

Synonyms
incapability, incapacity, impotence, incompetence. See disability.

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Example Sentences

The inability to agree on the principles that underlie our beliefs is at the root of our political discord.

For instance, the inability to edit tweets once they'd posted resulted in inadvertent errors of transcription or meaning.

But that still doesn't excuse the inability to get rid of incompetent teachers.

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The inability to agree on the principles that underlie our beliefs is at the root of our political discord.

For instance, the inability to edit tweets once they'd posted resulted in inadvertent errors of transcription or meaning.

But that still doesn't excuse the inability to get rid of incompetent teachers.

The only restriction was an inability to self-nominate.

But if you had to boil down our fisheries failures to one root cause you could blame the inability to exclude users.

Carr writes about his own inability to concentrate amid all the hypertext links, new-mail pings and blinking banner ads.

Often the pieces focused on the pain she felt because of her inability to forget difficult moments.

It can range from an occasional leakage of urine, to a complete inability to hold any urine.

Wrong answers or an inability to answer the question suggest a change in mental status.

Nothing, that is, beyond a fatal inability to imagine something other than a palace on a hill.

But one thing has so far helped him: the inability of the opposition to unite.

People with this condition have an inability to properly understand numbers.

Neuroscientists have long been frustrated by their inability to study how the brain works in sufficiently precise detail.

Matisse paid with insomnia and panic attacks for his inability ever to be satisfied with what he could already do.

The inability of some citizens to take responsibility for themselves is proved once again.

Inability to concentrate occurring nearly every day9.

My inability to repress my tongue may be another problem.

Third, they have behavioural differences other than an inability to read.

Our inability to forego these rewarding aspects of food intake override long-term homeostatic control, contributing to obesity.

Newman has published several studies showing this inability to consider peripheral information.

And the inability to keep oxygen levels high enough may contribute to muscle fatigue, the study said.

The disorganization and inability to follow instructions is outrageous.

Then hard money mindset comes from an inability to get past barter to the reality of a complex finance-based economy.

One hallmark of aging is the inability to heal as fast or maintain tissues and organs as well as in youth.

The chief drawback to vending machines is their limited menu, and their inability to offer freshly prepared, hot food.

My inability to crack the tenure track motivated me over the past few years to take on side work in politics and television.

But uniting them was an inability to offset what was bad with anything that was particularly good.

His rebuke was my inability to distinguish between regional weather and global climate.

Earmuffs are nothing more than over-the-ear headphones with some extra insulation and a frustrating inability to play music.

Try strategic vacillation, mixed with a chronic inability to match words to deeds.

They are both founded in our intrinsic inability to sense all causes for all outcomes.

So did their inability to use heavy weapons in counter-attacks.

The total inability to project anything into any kind of future adds to the bleakness.

But an inability to predict the cloud's behaviour made matters worse.

Inability to detect autism until a child is two or three years old is a terrific disadvantage.

The inability of models to handle true wildfires is partly due to their inherent limitations.

Autocratic governments, they thought, would be scuppered by their inability to control the free flow of information.

Have you ever been frustrated by your inability to.

Yet school counselors and cognitive therapists see the inability to concentrate as a widespread learning problem.

In the same way, the uncontrolled oil plume could become the objective correlative of the country's inability to govern itself.

The increasing inability of students and their families to pay for a college education.

It's our far broader inability as a society to execute on the big stuff.

Dell's inability to capture sales in the booming notebook computer market was reflected in its fourth-quarter financial results.

But my concern is the inability to go back and change an answer in the computer version.

In its pure form it is an inability to understand the emotional responses of others that is seen in people of otherwise normal.

Because of their inability to fly, they're more vulnerable to oil spills than other seabirds.

Some speak of being criticized in reviews for their inability to bond with their peers.

He had been depressed owing to his inability to procure remunerative employment.

The reason this works is that my insomnia or inability to fall asleep is largely about anxiety.

Two years ago, windmill-makers were fretting about their inability to meet a surge in global demand.

The inability of the show's historians to see that plain evidence or their choosing to ignore it is inexcusable.

Frustrated over their inability to stop high school students from cursing aggressively.

She certainly does nearly a full-time load but that is partly her own inability to say.

His inability to present himself in a desirable manner should be an example to all the children who looked up to him.

The inability to ensure a ready supply is also problematic.

They haven't yet been disappointed by the inability of pharmaceutical science to treat a splitting headache.

What appalled some jurors far more than their inability to reach a decision was their inability to focus on the matter at hand.

The two groups do not get on-hence the inability to form a government.

They are generally driven to these migrations by overpopulation, lack of jobs and the inability of the land to support them.

Both men and women decried the generic avatars, the inability to customize anything and the clunky user interface.

She gave as her motive her inability to support the child properly or place him in proper hands.

The world's inability quickly to curb carbon dioxide should prompt action on these only comparatively minor factors.

But instead of revealing any secrets of wound healing, the mice had an inability to grow hair in their first few weeks of life.

On the other hand, the inability to export potatoes flooded the domestic market and weakened prices.

The only thing these explanations proved was my own inability to deal with the reality of.

India's abiding failure is its inability to provide aid and economic opportunity to millions of its impoverished citizens.

Quantum encryption's chief impediment has been its inability to send information great distances.

It is news panic, a lack of discipline, an inability to say no.

Cabey's lawyers said his inability to answer demonstrated the brain damage he suffered in the shooting.

Inability or unwillingness to answer questions in a creative, professional way.

His biggest failure, however, is his inability to articulate a plausible alternative to the system he loathes.

The advantage of the former, however, is that it is not disrupted by an inability of the body to execute the command.

Mostly, though, that was only regarding the inability for readers to organize their book collection as they see fit.

Inability to focus on anything with any complexity or depth.

Japan's ongoing inability to prevent prices falling suggests the opposite task is rather less well understood.

The cause is the body s inability to protect itself from the bad bacteria because it has been deprived of the good bacteria.

There is little evidence yet that vital work has been stymied by an inability to get access to suitable cell lines.

There are several posts about the inability to land a tenure track job after several years of adjuncting or visiting positions.

Their inability to invest abroad prompted local companies to invest in each other.

The inability of some crops to cope beyond a limited temperature range.

Its inability to cope with file-sharing led to the collapse of recorded-music sales and the growing dependence on live music.

He had few of the symptoms other than the inability to recall facts and figures.

Most were lenient with our inability to actually draw and render.

Researchers have thought that trait may be connected with an outsized drive for reward and an inability to register fearful.

Funes, the young man in the story afflicted with an inability to forget anything, can't make sense of.

But the first couple's biggest advantage is the weakness of the opposition, and its inability to unite behind a single candidate.

Unless you admit inferiority and the inability to think.

The problem of historical memory, therefore, is complicated by the inability to sort out the guilty from the innocent.

Rather, it is the inability to connect with others that leaves people unhappy and socially isolated.

Some older voters, perhaps moved by their offspring's inability to buy their own home, recognise this.

The blunder may be in our inability to consider new solutions.

We are seeing the yet another result of the feds growing inability to manage their initiatives to the intended goal.

Diabetes is basically a disease where patients have an inability to make insulin.

But unwillingness or inability to make that move often means never getting a ft position.

Finally, there is an inability to attract the world's leading thinkers and best teachers.

Monoploy of land rights is the sole serious reason for world poverty and inability to feed the majority.

The inability of banks to understand their risks in the lead-up to the financial crisis is one example.

When olfactory neurons stop working altogether, a person develops anosmia, or the inability to discern odors.

Depression is often a response to the paralyzing inability to escape painful situations.

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World English Dictionary

inability (ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ)

—n
	lack of ability or means; incapacity

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"Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well- informed mind, is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing any thing, should conceal it as well as she can."

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