inability
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2.8
- noun
- /ˌɪnəˈbɪləti/
:
incapacidad
- Her inability to express her feelings led to misunderstandings in the relationship.
- inability to cope
- inability to understand
- inability to concentrate
The Android has an inability to make exceptions.
- The Android has an inability to make exceptions.
- And the first is our nation's inability to do big things like this.
- We go to war over the inability to control one's emotions.
- I'm frustrated by my inability to comprehend.
- The weakness she thinks of as just an inability to do something.
- It's also a very, very common cause of a woman's inability to conceive or get pregnant.
- in man's inability to sit quietly in A room.
- Dysregulation is the inability to regulate emotions in any way.
- It weakens us, it paralyses us, the inability to make a decision, a commitment.
- I'm convinced that our obsession with spotting red flags is our inability to trust ourselves.
- So mortality defined by the inability of Bob to influence Alice's measurements?
- But it's also resulted in him being terribly damaged by the inability to feel pain.
- And it was life changing to understand that ADHD is not about your inability to focus.
- Like his with his inability to fight in range.
- What have you had it with your inability to operate the iCal?
- And you just see their inability to just simply be honest.
Examples
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And I have an absolute inability to trust anyone.
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In the end, his greatest fault is his inability to understand women.
Academic text (1990) -
And the first is our nation's inability to do big things like this.
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And you just see their inability to just simply be honest.
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So more people are going to die because of the inability to get treated.
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And I read that cat story about that girl's inability to ask for what she wanted.
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And her inability to make a decision about anything.
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What held her back was the inability to see it only from her own point of view.
Fiction book (1995) -
We see her frustration, her inability to truly enter the magic box of his world.
Fiction book (1991) -
You all have something in common-- that's your inability to live in harmony with those who you should love the most.
Synonyms
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5.3
A situation in which something cannot happen
9
5.4
Not able to do things because your body or mind does not work well
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5.8
A feeling of being unable to control or change what happens
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6.8
Lack of ability to do a job or task well
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6.0
Not being able to do something because you lack the ability
A lack of ability to do something
Not able or qualified to do a job
Lack of ability to do a task or job well
Not enough skill to do something well
A feeling of being unable to change things
Antonyms
How Able
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inability starts with in- ('not') and ends with ability ('power to do something'), which comes from able. So, inability simply means 'not able' or a lack of the skill or power to do something.