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UK
/ɪnkəpˈæsɪti/
]
[ US /ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/ ]
NOUN
- lack of physical or natural qualifications
- lack of intellectual power
How To Use incapacity In A Sentence
- The healthy but lazy who claim incapacity benefit are just as morally bankrupt as those benefiting from offshore tax havens. Times, Sunday Times
- She had suffered lymphoedema in her right arm due to the cancer treatment, which left her too weak to operate equipment, but she was told she did not qualify for incapacity benefit.
- If a veterinarian - just as in the case of a doctor - is deemed to be highly incompetent or to have a mental or physical incapacity, he or she should be suspended forthwith.
- Other problems included a shortage of learning materials, disorganised teachers and the financial incapacity of students from rural areas.
- I had expected a degree of disturbance and interruption as I switched over to Retirement Pension from Incapacity Benefit, and still do.
- their incapacity to govern effectively.
- This small journey seems quite a formidable expedition to me, and that sort of cowardly feeling of incapacity and disinclination for the smallest effort or unusual exertion is the growth of a two years 'habit over that of thirty preceding ones, and is a greater sign of age than white hairs, wrinkles, or loss of teeth. Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
- Reasons for annulment include physical incapacity, physical violence, or pressure to change one's religious or political beliefs.
- Evidence of his mental incapacity was never produced in court.
- A novice defending counsel could get you off on the grounds of mental incapacity! DISPLACED PERSON