The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incapacity \In`ca*pac"i*ty\, n.; pl. Incapacities. [Cf. F. incapacit['e].]
Lack of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.
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(Law) Lack of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.
Syn: Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification; disability.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of incapacity English)
Usage examples of "incapacities".
Like result of one of its ideas, the school counted now on special an athletic program for children with physical incapacities, that Julie had created and who modified constantly with which Mr.
Aside from teaching in the school and to voluntarily give its time to the program of gymnastics for children with physical incapacities, and to teach to read adult women, also it taught in the dominical school, it sang in the choir, it cooked cakes for the fairs of the church, and wove to help to reunite bottoms for a new seat for the firemen.
She, in the first months of their marriage, had truly loved this flashy, careless fellow and had been ecstatic in her first pregnancy, and even when she had fully discovered his incapacities, she still had tried to retain her love for him.
They take no account of incapacities, unless the weakness is so marked as to fall into well-known exceptions, such as infancy or madness.
He reads before the Academy of Arras a discourse against the civil incapacities of illegitimate children, and then another on reforms in criminal jurisprudence.
She clung to him, searching among her ignorances and incapacities for some way to succor him.