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unfitness

DEFINITIONS OF: unfitness

n the quality of not being suitable

“the judges agreed on his unfitness for the appointment”

Antonyms:: fitness, fittingness
the quality of being suitable

Types:: disqualification
unfitness that bars you from participation

Type of:: ineptness, unsuitability, unsuitableness
the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose

n lacking the power to perform

Synonyms:: inability

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

n poor physical condition; being out of shape or out of condition (as from a life of ease and luxury)

Synonyms:: softness

Antonyms:: fitness, physical fitness
good physical condition; being in shape or in condition

Types:: show 19 types...; hide 19 types...; debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, infirmity, valetudinarianism
the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age); disability, disablement, handicap, impairment
the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; bandy leg, bandyleg, bow leg, bowleg, genu varum, tibia vara
a leg bowed outward at the knee (or below the knee); anorgasmia
absence of an orgasm in sexual relations; dysphasia
an impairment of language (especially speech production) that is usually due to brain damage; asthenia, astheny
an abnormal loss of strength; cachexia, cachexy, wasting
any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease; disability of walking
a disability that interferes with or prevents walking; astasia
inability to stand due to muscular incoordination; amputation
a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs; hearing disorder, hearing impairment
impairment of the sense of hearing; dysomia
impairment of the sense of smell; vision defect, visual defect, visual disorder, visual impairment
impairment of the sense of sight; descensus, prolapse, prolapsus
the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus); hypesthesia, hypoesthesia
impairment of tactile sensitivity; decrease of sensitivity; genu valgum, knock-knee, tibia valga
an inward slant of the thigh; pigeon toes
disability in which the toes are turned inward; often associated with knock-knee; bandy legs, bow leg, bow legs
outward curvature of the legs; disintegration
a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system

Type of:: health problem, ill health, unhealthiness
a state in which you are unable to function normally and without pain

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