Definition of Incapacity

Incapacity

Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.

Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.

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Incapacity Quotations

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love.
Anais Nin

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Arthur Erickson

We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.
David Cameron

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.
Robinson Jeffers

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
Lord Melbourne

Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
Polly Toynbee

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.
Edwin Booth

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