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Incapability is the state of not being able to do something. It is the noun that sits beside incapable. It is rather formal, and in real speech and writing inability is the word you will meet far more often: inability to sleep, inability to pay. Use incapability when you are matching the adjective incapable, or in cold official prose. Though actually, English also has incapacity, which often means a legal or medical lack of power to act — a more specialised neighbour, not a you can swap in freely. In everyday talk, just say cannot.
沒有能力;無能(此詞較書面。中文「無能」常像在罵人;英文 incapability 本身較中性、正式。日常較常說 inability。)
組成From in- (not) + capability (the ability to do something).
同家族的字
- capabilitythe ability to do something; in- turns it into the opposite
- capableable to do something
- incapablethe adjective: not able
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
incapabilitynoun/ɪnˌkeɪ.pəˈbɪ.lɪ.ti/
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The condition of being incapable.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。