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Meanings of incapability in English

Portuguese
incapacidade
Catalan
incapacitat
Spanish
incapacidad

The quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally.

incapacidade
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Examples for "incapableness"
Examples for "incapableness"
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For I mean by living, only such a being as distinguishes it from annihilation or incapableness of sense and feeling.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
Usage of incapability in English
1
In his pale, pimpled face were traces of incapability and bad humour.
The Goose Man
2
This, as I understand it, simply means an incapability of acting the hypocrite.
Born Again
3
The belief in his incapability of defeat, that was lost too!
Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian
4
Yes, but the incapability, I think, lies more in the friendship than in you.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
5
Their incapability of flying is compensated by the exceeding speed with which they run.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12,...
6
You could also resign on the grounds of incapability.
The Guardian
7
Of course, this means little food, exposure to weather, and increased incapability day by day.
In Darkest England, and the Way Out
8
Such a feeling of incapability washed over Glory that she didn't know what else to say.
Solomon's oak: a novel
9
The count dejectedly confessed his incapability to restrain them: the young desperadoes were ready for anything.
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1
10
It differs essentially from all other art, past or present, in this incapability of being frightened.
The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud ...
11
For the capacity for evil merges at some point or other into incapability for comprehending good.
The Sowers
12
Do not these facts conclusively demonstrate an incapability of self-government on the part of the Mexicans?
Texas / A Brief Account of the Origin, Progress and Present Stat...
13
What he had seen of the Hindu character convinced him of its fundamental cowardice and incapability for independent action.
The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People
14
It was really just their desire to grow more stinkweeds, and their incapability to do so in their soil.
The Forest Monster of Oz
15
In our valuation of Mohammed's sayings we cannot lay too much stress upon his incapability of looking far ahead.
Mohammedanism / Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Politi...
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It sinned for want of learning its lesson, and through an utter incapability of regarding its interests as a whole.
The Duchesse of Langeais
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Translations for incapability
Portuguese
incapacidade
Incapability through the time