Antonyms for incapacity
ˌɪn kəˈpæs ɪ tiin·ca·pac·i·ty

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1. incapacity

   Idiocy is a state of mental unsoundness amounting almost or quite to total absence of understanding. Imbecility is a condition of mental weakness, which may or may not be as complete as that of idiocy, but is at least such as to incapacitate for the serious duties of life. Incapacity, or lack of legal qualification for certain acts, necessarily results from imbecility, but may also result from other causes, as from insanity or from age, sex, etc.; as, the incapacity of a minor to make a contract. Idiocy or imbecility is weakness of mind, while insanity is disorder or abnormal action of mind. Folly and foolishness denote a want of mental and often of moral balance. Fatuity is sometimes used as equivalent to idiocy, but more frequently signifies conceited and excessive foolishness or folly. Stupidity is dulness and slowness of mental action which may range all the way from lack of normal readiness to absolute imbecility. Compare INSANITY.

   Antonyms:
   acuteness, astuteness, brilliancy, capacity, common sense, intelligence, sagacity, sense, soundness, wisdom

   Synonyms:
   fatuity, folly, foolishness, idiocy, imbecility, senselessness, stupidity

Matched Categories

1. • Inability
   • Incapability

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. incapacitynoun

   lack of intellectual power

   Antonyms:
   capacity, mental ability

2. incapacitynoun

   lack of physical or natural qualifications

   Antonyms:
   capacity, mental ability

How to use incapacity in a sentence?

1. Tomoko Murata:

   The verdict was extremely strict about proving psychological incapacity to resist.

2. Erich Fromm:

   The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.

3. William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne:

   It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

4. Arabic Proverb:

   By six qualities may a fool be known: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without motive; inquiry, without an object; trust in a stranger; and incapacity to discriminate between friend and foe.

5. Agnes Repplier:

   In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not faults! Now we are taught from infancy that we must rise or fall upon our own merits; that vigilance wins success, and incapacity means ruin.

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