- 1無能力；保險／醫療常說「失能」；法律上「無行為能力」是專有詞，不是日常說法。
Incapacity is the noun: the lack of ability to do things, or to do some particular thing. It is more formal than can’t and even stiffer than incapable. You mainly meet it in three rooms. At work and in insurance, incapacity is being unable to work because of illness or injury — papers talk of incapacity benefit or leave. In law, mental or legal incapacity means the person is not allowed to sign contracts or make big decisions; that is a specialist use, not kitchen-table talk. And in rather English, incapacity to act just means not being able to. Though actually, everyday speech almost never uses this word: people say can’t, isn’t able to, or, for a lasting condition, disability. Capacity is the ability (to hold, to do, to take on); incapacity is the hole where that ability should be. It is not a fancy spelling of incapable — one is a noun, one is an adjective.
組成From in- (not) + capacity (ability). Capacity goes back to Latin capācitās, from capāx (able to hold), from capere (to take / hold).
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
incapacitynoun/ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪti/
- 1
The lack of a capacity; an inability.
- So that it is not the insufficiency or incapacity of man's mind, but it is the remote standing or placing thereof that breedeth these mazes and incomprehensions;
- 2
Legal disqualification.
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