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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character or condition of being incapable; want of mental or physical capacity, or of legal competency; inability or disability.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being incapable; incapacity.
  • noun (Law) Lack of legal qualifications, or of legal power.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The condition of being incapable

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun lack of potential for development
  • noun the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally

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