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incapacity

noun
🔊/ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/
🔊/ˌɪnkəˈpæsəti/
[uncountable] (formal)
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  1. incapacity (of somebody/something) (to do something) lack of ability or skill无能力；缺乏技能 synonym inability
    • their incapacity to govern effectively他们缺乏有效治理的能力
  2. the state of being too ill to do your work or take care of yourself卧病；孱弱
    • She returned to work after a long period of incapacity.她病了很长一段时间之后回去工作了。🔊🔊
    Topics Illnessc2
    3. 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’).