Definition of incapacity in English:

incapacity

nounPlural incapacities ɪnkəˈpasɪtiˌɪnkəˈpæsədi

mass noun

1Physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one's affairs.
（生理，心理）无能力，无自理能力
they can be sacked only for incapacity or misbehaviour
他们可以仅因伤残或者行为不当而遭解雇。
Example sentencesExamples
- Reasons for annulment include physical incapacity, physical violence, or pressure to change one's religious or political beliefs.
- The Act has been amended to allow personnel who have been discharged as a result of a serious physical or mental incapacity to apply for an entitlement certificate after the two-year period.
- It would appear that if there was an objective reason to suspect, it will not avail the accused that persons suffering from his mental or physical incapacities would not have been aware of it.
- But Floyd is concerned that his parents' physical and mental incapacities may have made them susceptible to voting fraud.
- One in 30 people over the age of 65 is likely to suffer from cataracts and surveys show older people fear loss of vision above all other incapacities.
- To say that such systems ‘could not be produced’ is to attribute an inability or incapacity to the Darwinian mechanism.
- He accepted with grace the incapacities that came and went and came again.
- Where the intended beneficiary suffers from a mental or physical incapacity, a trust can be used to hold funds for that individual, with the management of the funds resting with the trustees.
- It may relate to the quality of information given, the impact of the regimen on daily life, the physical or mental incapacity of patients, or their social isolation.
- They ask for no evidence of the age or even proof of the ‘abducted’ woman's alleged mental incapacity.
- If a veterinarian - just as in the case of a doctor - is deemed to be highly incompetent or to have a mental or physical incapacity, he or she should be suspended forthwith.
- If a farmer is aged 55 or over, or is unable to carry on farming as a result of physical or mental incapacity, he can let his farm under a lease for five or more years to a lessee who is not a relative of his.
- A significant number of people die on the spot or are condemned to reduced lifespans marred by physical incapacity.
- This arises from an understanding of the notion of incapacity covered by Article 35 as being confined to physical or mental incapacity as distinct from unfitness to serve.
- The failure of European bureaucracy was certainly not due to incapacities of the personnel.
- To be sure, our ancestors would have enhanced themselves and their progeny in ways that seemed universally desirable - eliminating fatal maladies, disfigurement, mental incapacities, and so forth.
- In the event of absences or incapacities of the President and President-elect, the immediate past President shall serve and perform the duties of the President.
- This, as you might know, makes us turn away from our own incapacities - which are many, much more than we like to admit.
- Too often, researchers say, physical incapacity is prolonged by depression and fear, when gentle exercise and behavioural therapy can break a cycle of inactivity.
- And in the process instilled in us some uncanny, extremely unique, weird and peculiar inability and incapacity to fathom how this place works.
Synonyms
disability, incapability, inability, debility, impairment, indisposition, unfitness
powerlessness, impotence, helplessness, weakness
incompetence, inadequacy, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency
2Legal disqualification.
剥夺法定资格
they are not subject to any legal incapacity
他们没有遭到任何法定资格的剥夺。
Example sentencesExamples
- A party entered into the Arbitration Agreement while under a legal incapacity.
- She submits, however, that the Board did not err in law, because it made a specific finding of incapacity based on the statutory test.
- It also granted them a continuing power as attorneys in the event of his incapacity.
- It therefore includes both cognitive and volitional deficiencies, and places the insanity verdict more squarely on the ground of incapacity.
- In an attempt to solve the present case, and similar cases of successive causes of incapacity according to some legal principle, a number of arguments have been invoked.
Synonyms
disqualification, lack of entitlement, lack of legal right

Origin

Early 17th century: from French incapacité or late Latin incapacitas, from in- (expressing negation) + capacitas (see capacity).

capable from mid 16th century:
The first recorded sense of this was ‘able to take in’, physically or mentally. It comes from Latin capere ‘take or hold’ which is found in many other English words including: accept (Late Middle English) from ad- ‘to’ and capere; anticipation (Late Middle English) ‘acting or taking in advance’; capacity (Late Middle English) ‘ability to hold’; caption (Late Middle English) originally an act of capture; captive (Late Middle English); catch (Middle English); chase (Middle English); conceive (Middle English) literally ‘take together’; except (Late Middle English) ‘take out of’; incapacity (early 17th century) inability to hold; intercept (Late Middle English) to take between; perceive (Middle English) to hold entirely; prince; receive (Middle English) ‘take back’; susceptible (early 17th century) literally ‘that can be taken from below’.

Definition of incapacity in US English:

incapacity

nounˌɪnkəˈpæsədiˌinkəˈpasədē

1Physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one's affairs.
（生理，心理）无能力，无自理能力
they can be fired only for incapacity or misbehavior
他们可以仅因伤残或者行为不当而遭解雇。
Example sentencesExamples
- In the event of absences or incapacities of the President and President-elect, the immediate past President shall serve and perform the duties of the President.
- But Floyd is concerned that his parents' physical and mental incapacities may have made them susceptible to voting fraud.
- To be sure, our ancestors would have enhanced themselves and their progeny in ways that seemed universally desirable - eliminating fatal maladies, disfigurement, mental incapacities, and so forth.
- Reasons for annulment include physical incapacity, physical violence, or pressure to change one's religious or political beliefs.
- And in the process instilled in us some uncanny, extremely unique, weird and peculiar inability and incapacity to fathom how this place works.
- A significant number of people die on the spot or are condemned to reduced lifespans marred by physical incapacity.
- Too often, researchers say, physical incapacity is prolonged by depression and fear, when gentle exercise and behavioural therapy can break a cycle of inactivity.
- It may relate to the quality of information given, the impact of the regimen on daily life, the physical or mental incapacity of patients, or their social isolation.
- If a veterinarian - just as in the case of a doctor - is deemed to be highly incompetent or to have a mental or physical incapacity, he or she should be suspended forthwith.
- Where the intended beneficiary suffers from a mental or physical incapacity, a trust can be used to hold funds for that individual, with the management of the funds resting with the trustees.
- The Act has been amended to allow personnel who have been discharged as a result of a serious physical or mental incapacity to apply for an entitlement certificate after the two-year period.
- He accepted with grace the incapacities that came and went and came again.
- They ask for no evidence of the age or even proof of the ‘abducted’ woman's alleged mental incapacity.
- It would appear that if there was an objective reason to suspect, it will not avail the accused that persons suffering from his mental or physical incapacities would not have been aware of it.
- To say that such systems ‘could not be produced’ is to attribute an inability or incapacity to the Darwinian mechanism.
- One in 30 people over the age of 65 is likely to suffer from cataracts and surveys show older people fear loss of vision above all other incapacities.
- This, as you might know, makes us turn away from our own incapacities - which are many, much more than we like to admit.
- This arises from an understanding of the notion of incapacity covered by Article 35 as being confined to physical or mental incapacity as distinct from unfitness to serve.
- If a farmer is aged 55 or over, or is unable to carry on farming as a result of physical or mental incapacity, he can let his farm under a lease for five or more years to a lessee who is not a relative of his.
- The failure of European bureaucracy was certainly not due to incapacities of the personnel.
Synonyms
disability, incapability, inability, debility, impairment, indisposition, unfitness
1. 1.1 Legal disqualification.
  剥夺法定资格
  they are not subject to any legal incapacity
  他们没有遭到任何法定资格的剥夺。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It also granted them a continuing power as attorneys in the event of his incapacity.
  A party entered into the Arbitration Agreement while under a legal incapacity.
  In an attempt to solve the present case, and similar cases of successive causes of incapacity according to some legal principle, a number of arguments have been invoked.
  She submits, however, that the Board did not err in law, because it made a specific finding of incapacity based on the statutory test.
  It therefore includes both cognitive and volitional deficiencies, and places the insanity verdict more squarely on the ground of incapacity.
  Synonyms
  disqualification, lack of entitlement, lack of legal right

Origin

Early 17th century: from French incapacité or late Latin incapacitas, from in- (expressing negation) + capacitas (see capacity).

词汇	incapacity
释义	Definition of incapacity in English: incapacity nounPlural incapacities ɪnkəˈpasɪtiˌɪnkəˈpæsədi mass noun 1Physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one's affairs. （生理，心理）无能力，无自理能力 they can be sacked only for incapacity or misbehaviour 他们可以仅因伤残或者行为不当而遭解雇。 Example sentencesExamples Reasons for annulment include physical incapacity, physical violence, or pressure to change one's religious or political beliefs. The Act has been amended to allow personnel who have been discharged as a result of a serious physical or mental incapacity to apply for an entitlement certificate after the two-year period. It would appear that if there was an objective reason to suspect, it will not avail the accused that persons suffering from his mental or physical incapacities would not have been aware of it. But Floyd is concerned that his parents' physical and mental incapacities may have made them susceptible to voting fraud. One in 30 people over the age of 65 is likely to suffer from cataracts and surveys show older people fear loss of vision above all other incapacities. To say that such systems ‘could not be produced’ is to attribute an inability or incapacity to the Darwinian mechanism. He accepted with grace the incapacities that came and went and came again. Where the intended beneficiary suffers from a mental or physical incapacity, a trust can be used to hold funds for that individual, with the management of the funds resting with the trustees. It may relate to the quality of information given, the impact of the regimen on daily life, the physical or mental incapacity of patients, or their social isolation. They ask for no evidence of the age or even proof of the ‘abducted’ woman's alleged mental incapacity. If a veterinarian - just as in the case of a doctor - is deemed to be highly incompetent or to have a mental or physical incapacity, he or she should be suspended forthwith. If a farmer is aged 55 or over, or is unable to carry on farming as a result of physical or mental incapacity, he can let his farm under a lease for five or more years to a lessee who is not a relative of his. A significant number of people die on the spot or are condemned to reduced lifespans marred by physical incapacity. This arises from an understanding of the notion of incapacity covered by Article 35 as being confined to physical or mental incapacity as distinct from unfitness to serve. The failure of European bureaucracy was certainly not due to incapacities of the personnel. To be sure, our ancestors would have enhanced themselves and their progeny in ways that seemed universally desirable - eliminating fatal maladies, disfigurement, mental incapacities, and so forth. In the event of absences or incapacities of the President and President-elect, the immediate past President shall serve and perform the duties of the President. This, as you might know, makes us turn away from our own incapacities - which are many, much more than we like to admit. Too often, researchers say, physical incapacity is prolonged by depression and fear, when gentle exercise and behavioural therapy can break a cycle of inactivity. And in the process instilled in us some uncanny, extremely unique, weird and peculiar inability and incapacity to fathom how this place works. Synonyms disability, incapability, inability, debility, impairment, indisposition, unfitness powerlessness, impotence, helplessness, weakness incompetence, inadequacy, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency 2Legal disqualification. 剥夺法定资格 they are not subject to any legal incapacity 他们没有遭到任何法定资格的剥夺。 Example sentencesExamples A party entered into the Arbitration Agreement while under a legal incapacity. She submits, however, that the Board did not err in law, because it made a specific finding of incapacity based on the statutory test. It also granted them a continuing power as attorneys in the event of his incapacity. It therefore includes both cognitive and volitional deficiencies, and places the insanity verdict more squarely on the ground of incapacity. In an attempt to solve the present case, and similar cases of successive causes of incapacity according to some legal principle, a number of arguments have been invoked. Synonyms disqualification, lack of entitlement, lack of legal right Origin Early 17th century: from French incapacité or late Latin incapacitas, from in- (expressing negation) + capacitas (see capacity). capable from mid 16th century: The first recorded sense of this was ‘able to take in’, physically or mentally. It comes from Latin capere ‘take or hold’ which is found in many other English words including: accept (Late Middle English) from ad- ‘to’ and capere; anticipation (Late Middle English) ‘acting or taking in advance’; capacity (Late Middle English) ‘ability to hold’; caption (Late Middle English) originally an act of capture; captive (Late Middle English); catch (Middle English); chase (Middle English); conceive (Middle English) literally ‘take together’; except (Late Middle English) ‘take out of’; incapacity (early 17th century) inability to hold; intercept (Late Middle English) to take between; perceive (Middle English) to hold entirely; prince; receive (Middle English) ‘take back’; susceptible (early 17th century) literally ‘that can be taken from below’. Definition of incapacity in US English: incapacity nounˌɪnkəˈpæsədiˌinkəˈpasədē 1Physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one's affairs. （生理，心理）无能力，无自理能力 they can be fired only for incapacity or misbehavior 他们可以仅因伤残或者行为不当而遭解雇。 Example sentencesExamples In the event of absences or incapacities of the President and President-elect, the immediate past President shall serve and perform the duties of the President. But Floyd is concerned that his parents' physical and mental incapacities may have made them susceptible to voting fraud. To be sure, our ancestors would have enhanced themselves and their progeny in ways that seemed universally desirable - eliminating fatal maladies, disfigurement, mental incapacities, and so forth. Reasons for annulment include physical incapacity, physical violence, or pressure to change one's religious or political beliefs. And in the process instilled in us some uncanny, extremely unique, weird and peculiar inability and incapacity to fathom how this place works. A significant number of people die on the spot or are condemned to reduced lifespans marred by physical incapacity. Too often, researchers say, physical incapacity is prolonged by depression and fear, when gentle exercise and behavioural therapy can break a cycle of inactivity. It may relate to the quality of information given, the impact of the regimen on daily life, the physical or mental incapacity of patients, or their social isolation. If a veterinarian - just as in the case of a doctor - is deemed to be highly incompetent or to have a mental or physical incapacity, he or she should be suspended forthwith. Where the intended beneficiary suffers from a mental or physical incapacity, a trust can be used to hold funds for that individual, with the management of the funds resting with the trustees. The Act has been amended to allow personnel who have been discharged as a result of a serious physical or mental incapacity to apply for an entitlement certificate after the two-year period. He accepted with grace the incapacities that came and went and came again. They ask for no evidence of the age or even proof of the ‘abducted’ woman's alleged mental incapacity. It would appear that if there was an objective reason to suspect, it will not avail the accused that persons suffering from his mental or physical incapacities would not have been aware of it. To say that such systems ‘could not be produced’ is to attribute an inability or incapacity to the Darwinian mechanism. One in 30 people over the age of 65 is likely to suffer from cataracts and surveys show older people fear loss of vision above all other incapacities. This, as you might know, makes us turn away from our own incapacities - which are many, much more than we like to admit. This arises from an understanding of the notion of incapacity covered by Article 35 as being confined to physical or mental incapacity as distinct from unfitness to serve. If a farmer is aged 55 or over, or is unable to carry on farming as a result of physical or mental incapacity, he can let his farm under a lease for five or more years to a lessee who is not a relative of his. The failure of European bureaucracy was certainly not due to incapacities of the personnel. Synonyms disability, incapability, inability, debility, impairment, indisposition, unfitness 1.1 Legal disqualification. 剥夺法定资格 they are not subject to any legal incapacity 他们没有遭到任何法定资格的剥夺。 Example sentencesExamples It also granted them a continuing power as attorneys in the event of his incapacity. A party entered into the Arbitration Agreement while under a legal incapacity. In an attempt to solve the present case, and similar cases of successive causes of incapacity according to some legal principle, a number of arguments have been invoked. She submits, however, that the Board did not err in law, because it made a specific finding of incapacity based on the statutory test. It therefore includes both cognitive and volitional deficiencies, and places the insanity verdict more squarely on the ground of incapacity. Synonyms disqualification, lack of entitlement, lack of legal right Origin Early 17th century: from French incapacité or late Latin incapacitas, from in- (expressing negation) + capacitas (see capacity).
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