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incapacity

[ in-kuh-pas-i-tee ]

noun

  1. lack of ability, qualification, or strength; incapability.
  2. Law. lack of the legal power to act in a specified way or ways.


incapacity

/ ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪtɪ /

noun

  1. lack of power, strength, or capacity; inability
  2. law
    1. legal disqualification or ineligibility
    2. a circumstance causing this


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Word History and Origins

Origin of incapacity1

From the Late Latin word incapācitās, dating back to 1605–15. See in- 3, capacity

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Example Sentences

The creator of a living trust can name a successor trustee who will take over the management of the trust in the event of either death or incapacity.

This incapacity to imagine the underside of technical achievements is not destiny.

Guardianship, which is often used when a person is designated by the parents to take care of their child in the event of death or incapacity, is not an ideal match for this case, according to Parker.

Will our incapacity to govern efficiently and effectively further weaken our image as a global leader?

Cases linked to mental incapacity are the lone exception, judges have ruled.

Part of this absence of empathy is an incapacity for self-examination.

People will not fail to attribute it to the incapacity of the Ministers, and possibly to their malevolence.

But his known incapacity held him down to a secondary place.

Charges of incapacity, cruelty, brutal insolence, were hurled backward and forward.

Doubt arises ordinarily from laziness, weakness, indifference, or incapacity.

In none of their many sovereignties had the incapacity of the Bourbons been more completely demonstrated than in Spain.

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