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DEFINITIONS OF: inability

n lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something

Antonyms:: ability, power
possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done

Types:: show 23 types...; hide 23 types...; block, mental block
an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension; stupidity
a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience; inaptitude
a lack of aptitude; incapacity
lack of intellectual power; unskillfulness
a lack of cognitive skill; analphabetism, illiteracy
an inability to read; uncreativeness
a lack of creativity; incomprehension
an inability to understand; incoordination
a lack of coordination of movements; disfluency
lack of skillfulness in speaking or writing; writer's block
an inability to write; denseness, dumbness, slow-wittedness
the quality of being mentally slow and limited; dullness, obtuseness
the quality of being slow to understand; backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality
lack of normal development of intellectual capacities; craziness, folly, foolishness, madness
the quality of being rash and foolish; vacuousness
indicative of or marked by mental vacuity and an absence of ideas; talentlessness
a lack of talent; incapability, incapableness
lack of potential for development; awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness
unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training; inefficiency
unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency; amateurishness
something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency; fruitlessness
a lack of creative imagination; unoriginality
uncreativeness due to a lack of originality

Type of:: cognition, knowledge, noesis
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

n lacking the power to perform

Synonyms:: unfitness

Antonyms:: ability
the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

Types:: show 13 types...; hide 13 types...; unadaptability
the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances; insensitiveness, insensitivity
the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment; incompetence, incompetency
lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications; incapability, incapableness
the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; insufficiency
(pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally; inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness
the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe; crassitude, crassness
the quality of being crass--devoid of refinement; tin ear
insensitivity to the appropriateness or subtlety of language; callosity, callousness, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness
devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness; unperceptiveness
the lack of insight and sympathetic understanding; unkindness
lack of sympathy; incapacity
lack of physical or natural qualifications; cardiac insufficiency, coronary insufficiency
inadequate blood flow to the heart muscles; can cause angina pectoris

Type of:: quality
an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone

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