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UK
/ɪnɐbˈɪlətˌi/
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[ US /ˌɪnəˈbɪɫɪti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnəˈbɪɫɪti/ ]
NOUN
- lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something
- lacking the power to perform
How To Use inability In A Sentence
- As for the national outpouring of ersatz grief, reminiscent of the scenes that followed the death of Princess Diana, it surely spoke not of feeling but of an egotistical inability to feel, compensated for by outward show.
- Moreover, for logistics companies there are considerable long-term questions over the economic and environmental sustainability of home delivery. Times, Sunday Times
- And then there was Munster's inability to cope with the dinks and kicks through by Duncan McRae and Henry Paul which eventually proved their undoing.
- His other key weakness is his inability to detach himself from his players and put them under pressure.
- Their inability to work together for the good of the republic would only increase the peoples' cynicism about government.
- After World War I its activities were severely limited by lack of funds and its inability to recruit good personnel.
- Regardless of whether those pessimistic readings of the debate are correct, and of whether the zombie idea itself is sound or incoherent, it continues to stimulate fruitful work on consciousness, physicalism, phenomenal concepts, and the relations between imaginability, conceivability, and possibility. Zombies
- This can lead to reduced coral growth, inability to recover from hazards like cyclones, smothering of coral by sediment, fish poisoning and unusually high growth rates for organisms that overgrow coral or support its rivals.
- Lead, selenium, tellurium and sulfur are added to copper alloys to improve machinability.
- The minor 'phobias, such as pyrophobia, or fear of fire; stasophobia, or inability to arise and walk, the victims spending all their time in bed; toxicophobia or fear of poison, etc., will be left to the reader's inspection in special works on this subject. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine