incapacity

noun

/ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/

[uncountable] (formal)

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incapacity (of somebody/something) (to do something) lack of ability or skill synonym inability
- their incapacity to govern effectively
the state of being too ill to do your work or take care of yourself
- She returned to work after a long period of incapacity.
Topics Illnessc2

Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French incapacité or late Latin incapacitas, from in- (expressing negation) + capacitas (from capax, capac- ‘that can contain’, from capere ‘take or hold’).

单词	incapacity
释义	incapacity noun /ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/ /ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/ [uncountable] (formal) jump to other results incapacity (of somebody/something) (to do something) lack of ability or skill synonym inability their incapacity to govern effectively the state of being too ill to do your work or take care of yourself She returned to work after a long period of incapacity. Topics Illnessc2 Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French incapacité or late Latin incapacitas, from in- (expressing negation) + capacitas (from capax, capac- ‘that can contain’, from capere ‘take or hold’).
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