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unability

noun

Etymology

From un- + ability.

  1. derived from habilitās
  2. derived from ablete
  3. inherited from abilite
  4. prefixed as unability — “un + ability”

Definitions

  1. Lack of ability

    Lack of ability; inability.

    • difficulty doth not make me despaire, much lesse my unability: for it is but mine owne.
    • there being so many whose businesse and profession meerly it is, to be the champions of Truth; which if they neglect, what can be imputed but their sloth, or unability?
    • Until today we have not made much progress over Democrit who postulated that it is only our unability to register and explain a great number of fast events in a non-linear way, i.e. not according to the principle of cause and effect.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for unability. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA