English-Thai Dictionary

incapacity

N การ ไร้ความสามารถ  การ สูญเสีย อำนาจ  ความ พิการ  disability inability ability capacity kan-rai-kwam-sa-mad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INCAPACITY

n.[in and capacity. ] Want of capacity, intellectual power, or the power of receiving, containing or understanding; applied to the mind, and it may be natural or casual. There is a natural incapacity in children to comprehend difficult propositions in logic or metaphysics, and a natural incapacity in men to comprehend the nature of spiritual beings. The defect of understanding proceeding from intoxication, or from an injury done to the brain, is a casual incapacity. 1. Want of qualification or legal requisites; inability; as the incapacity of minors to make binding contracts.
2. Disqualification; disability by deprivation of power; as the incapacity of a convict to give testimony in a court of law.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INCAPACITY

In `ca *pac "i *ty, n.; pl. Incapacities (. Etym: [Cf. F. incapacité. ]

 

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

 

2. (Law )

 

Defn: 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.

 

Syn. -- Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification; disability.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

incapacity

in ca pac i ty |ˌinkəˈpasitē ˈˌɪnkəˈpæsədi | ▶noun ( pl. incapacities ) physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one's affairs: they can be fired only for incapacity or misbehavior. • legal disqualification: they are not subject to any legal incapacity. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from French incapacité or late Latin incapacitas, from in- (expressing negation ) + capacitas (see capacity ).

 

incapacity benefit

in |cap ¦acity bene |fit ▶noun [ mass noun ] (in the UK ) a state benefit paid to people who are unable to work due to illness or disability for a period of more than twenty-eight consecutive weeks.

 

Oxford Dictionary

incapacity

in |cap ¦acity |ɪnkəˈpasɪti | ▶noun ( pl. incapacities ) [ mass noun ] 1 physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one's affairs: they can be sacked only for incapacity or misbehaviour. 2 legal disqualification. ORIGIN early 17th cent.: from French incapacité or late Latin incapacitas, from in- (expressing negation ) + capacitas (see capacity ).

 

incapacity benefit

in |cap ¦acity bene |fit ▶noun [ mass noun ] (in the UK ) a state benefit paid to people who are unable to work due to illness or disability for a period of more than twenty-eight consecutive weeks.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

incapacity

incapacity noun the doctors were baffled by the severity of her physical incapacity: disability, incapability, inability, debility, impairment, indisposition; impotence, powerlessness, helplessness; incompetence, inadequacy, ineffectiveness. ANTONYMS capability.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

incapacity

incapacity noun 1 evidence of his mental incapacity: disability, incapability, inability, debility, impairment, indisposition, unfitness; powerlessness, impotence, helplessness, weakness; incompetence, inadequacy, ineffectiveness, ineffectuality, inefficiency. ANTONYMS ability, capability. 2 legal incapacity: disqualification, lack of entitlement, lack of legal right. ANTONYMS qualification.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

incapacity

in ca pac i ty /ɪ̀nkəpǽsəti /名詞 U 〖時にan ～〗1 «…するための » 能力のないこと ; 無能 ; 不適性 «for (do ing ), to do » .2 〘法 〙無資格 .