Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being inhabile; unfitness; inaptness; want of skill; inability.

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

  • noun obsolete Unsuitableness; unaptness; unfitness; inability.

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

  • noun obsolete unsuitableness; inability

Etymologies

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Compare French inhabileté, inhabilité. See inability.

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Examples

  • I feel relieved that at least this forum is more focused on the gun itself than in the supposed inhability of arabs to shoot, like all the other places where I have seen this video.

    Just for Kicks 2006

  • At first seems like the inhability to write was being compensated for with “picture writing” that is inherently language independent.

    Lean Left » Blog Archive » We Need More Science Education 2006

  • This has left us with the most unskilled blue collar workforce in American history, and a poor inhability for the future generation to drive an economy with decent blue collar pay.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local 2010

  • All this puts Mary Marsh-Linde in a pickle, as she tries to bring inhability claims in eviction hearings.

    Sierra Sun - Top Stories 2009

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