Inability definition

ĭnə-bĭlĭ-tē
Lack of ability or means.
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The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability, capacity, means, or power.
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The definition of inability is the state of having no power or a lack of ability.

An example of inability is not understanding how to operate a computer.

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Lack of the ability to do something; incapability.
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Noun

Singular:
inability
Plural:
inabilities

Origin of inability

  • From Middle French inhabilité, from Medieval Latin inhabilitas

    From Wiktionary

Inability Sentence Examples

  • Maybe his inability to talk makes you feel unsure.

  • If he was self-conscious about his inability to talk, he gave no indication.

  • Alliances with various land powers, and an inability to understand the true relations which alone could unite the league, combined to alienate the allies, who could discover no reason for the expenditure of their contributions on protecting Sparta or Corinth against Thebes.

  • In the slighter forms no inconvenience may result; but in higher degrees prolonged work is apt to give rise to aching and watering of the eyes, headache, inability to read or sew for any length of time, and even to double vision and internal strabismus.

  • In this work, which is one of the most valuable contributions to the literature of algebra, Cardan shows that he was familiar with both real positive and negative roots of equations whether rational or irrational, but of imaginary roots he was quite ignorant, and he admits his inability to resolve the so-called lation of Arabic manuscripts.

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