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Meaning of "inability" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF INABILITY

inability  [ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INABILITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Inability is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES INABILITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of inability in the English dictionary

The definition of inability in the dictionary is lack of ability or means; incapacity.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INABILITY


ability
əˈbɪlɪtɪ
accessibility
əkˌsɛsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
accountability
əˌkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtɪ
affordability
əˌfɔːdəˈbɪlɪtɪ
availability
əˌveɪləˈbɪlɪtɪ
capability
ˌkeɪpəˈbɪlɪtɪ
compatibility
kəmˌpætɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
disability
ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
durability
ˌdjʊərəˈbɪlɪtɪ
eligibility
ˌɛlɪdʒɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
flexibility
ˌflɛksɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
liability
ˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
mobility
məʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
nobility
nəʊˈbɪlɪtɪ
possibility
ˌpɒsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ
probability
ˌprɒbəˈbɪlɪtɪ
reliability
rɪˌlaɪəˈbɪlɪtɪ
responsibility
rɪˌspɒnsəˈbɪlɪtɪ
stability
stəˈbɪlɪtɪ
visibility
ˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INABILITY

in.
inabstinence
inaccessibility
inaccessible
inaccessibleness
inaccessibly
inaccuracies
inaccuracy
inaccurate
inaccurately
inaccurateness
inaction
inactivate
inactivation
inactive
inactively
inactiveness
inactivity
inadaptable
inadaptation

WORDS THAT END LIKE INABILITY

agility
facility
feasibility
fertility
functionality
hostility
humility
inevitability
instability
merchantability
profitability
suitability
susceptibility
sustainability
tranquility
usability
utility
variability
versatility
viability
vulnerability

Synonyms and antonyms of inability in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INABILITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «inability» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of inability

Translation of «inability» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INABILITY

Find out the translation of inability to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of inability from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «inability» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无力
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

incapacidad
570 millions of speakers

English

inability
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

असमर्थता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

عدم القدرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

неспособность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

inabilidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অক্ষমতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

incapacité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketidakupayaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unfähigkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

不能
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

~할 수 없음
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kasekengan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không có khả năng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இயலாமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

असमर्थता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yetersizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incapacità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niezdolność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нездатність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

incapacitatea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ανικανότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onvermoë
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oförmåga
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

manglende evne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of inability

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INABILITY»

The term «inability» is very widely used and occupies the 15.958 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of inability
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «inability».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INABILITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «inability» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «inability» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about inability

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10 QUOTES WITH «INABILITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word inability.
1
Eric Alterman
This trend of reporting process over substance is unfortunate, if omnipresent. Even worse is the media's inability - or unwillingness - to fact-check Republicans who are angry about the Democrats trying to debate and vote on Iraq policy.
2
Paul Auster
What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it's quite literally that.
3
Walter Bagehot
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
4
Daniel Baldwin
It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
5
Norman Borlaug
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
6
Adam Braun
The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
7
Eli Broad
The inability to delegate is one of the biggest problems I see with managers at all levels.
8
Brene Brown
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
9
Jean de la Bruyere
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
10
Neil Burger
I always think about what's the difference between being tenacious and having an inability to learn from failures. The difference between the homeless guy who wanted to be a great painter and the guy who is a great painter could be anything.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INABILITY»

Discover the use of inability in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to inability and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Presidential Inability: Hearing Before the Special ...
Committee Serial No. 3. Considers proposed legislation relating to cases in which the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary, 1957
2
The Effects of Binge Drinking on Military Readiness: The ...
THE EFFECTS OF BINGE-DRINKING ON MILITARY READINESS: THE INABILITY TO DEPLOY RAYMOND J. CLYDESDALE, BS, DO, MPH The University of Texas School of Public Health, 2009 Thesis Advisor: JOHN R. HERBOLD The ...
Raymond J. Clydesdale, 2009
3
The Treatment of Disease in TCM: Diseases of the neck, ...
Inability to raise the shoulder refers to restriction of the mobility of the shoulder joint. In this case, one cannot raise their arm upward to its normal full extent. Typically, the symptoms of inability to lift the shoulder and shoulder pain occur together, ...
Philippe Sionneau, Lü Gang, 1998
4
Responding to Individuals with Mental Illnesses
In most states, individuals can be involuntarily detained for a psychiatric assessment based on suicidality, dangerousness to others, or inability to care for themselves. Problems that can lead to severely impaired self-care include confusion, ...
Michael T. Compton, Raymond J. Kotwicki, 2006
5
Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle
with the full consciousness of doing so, who, on the subject of natural and moral inability in relation to the salvation of the gospel, can write in the following strain, and at the same time bear false witness against his neighbour. He first tells us, ...
‎1846
6
Code of Federal Regulations, Title 20, Employees' Benefits, ...
the case record, generally without developing additional evidence about the child's ability to perform the specific activities listed as examples in 101.00B2b(2) and (3) and 101.00B2c(2) and (3). b. What We Mean by Inability To Ambulate ...
‎2010
7
Lectures on Systematic Theology
that does not come within the sphere of the direct or indirect causality of, or control of the will. It is plain, therefore, that the inability for which they contend must be a proper natural inability, or inability of nature. This they fully admit and maintain.
Charles Grandison Finney, Richard Friedrich, 2003
8
Learning Disabilities: From Identification to Intervention
Phonological agraphia—inability to spell pseudowords, but not familiar words ( regular and irregular) 3. Deep agraphia—inability to spell pseudowords and more trouble spelling function words than nouns 4. Semantic agraphia—inability to ...
Jack M. Fletcher, G. Reid Lyon, Lynn S. Fuchs, 2006
9
Differences Between Old and New School Presbyterians
great in degree, as their inability to create a world ; but these two kinds of inability differ totally and infinitely from each other. The reality of the inability to love God, does not make it physical, any more truly, than it makes it chemical, ...
Lewis Cheeseman, 1848
10
The Oberlin Quarterly Review
to see," &c. This he admits. But he says "it is no less obviously true that an inability which has its origin in sin, which consists in what is sinful, and relates to moral action, is perfectly consistent with continued obligation." But what is this sinful ...
‎1847

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INABILITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term inability is used in the context of the following news items.
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Exposing the inability to dream big: Baahubali shows Bollywood …
We don't know how Baahubali will destroy Bhallaldeva in the concluding part of SS Rajamouli's film. What we know is how Baahubali is ... «Firstpost, Jul 15»
2
NTSB: Inability to transfer fuel likely cause of crash
A dramatic parachute emergency plane crash into the Pacific Ocean in January captured on video by the U.S. Coast Guard was probably ... «Maui News, Jul 15»
3
PM Modi's Inability to Attend President's Iftar Party Sending Wrong …
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's inability to attend the Iftar party hosted by President ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
4
Lauber: All-Stars highlight Red Sox' inability to develop ace
CINCINNATI — Sonny Gray would have bet his signing bonus that he was going to get drafted by the Red Sox. It was 2011, Gray was a touted ... «Boston Herald, Jul 15»
5
Inmate serving life sentence sues over inability to marry
PITTSBURGH (AP) — An inmate serving a life sentence at a western Pennsylvania correctional facility and his fiancée are suing the prison ... «Sunbury Daily Item, Jul 15»
6
Latest from Iran
Press TV: This lack of a ceasefire, which the UN had put much hopes into, doesn't it show the inability of the UN to act on international conflicts ... «Press TV, Jul 15»
7
EU prints euro on inability of debt servicing: Greek needs in money …
In the update of IMF staff's preliminary public debt sustainability analysis the Fund openly says that Greece's debt can now only be made ... «Azerbaijan Business Center, Jul 15»
8
Iraqi government's inability to pay salaries in Kirkuk, potential review …
Halting the payment of salaries is likely calculated to counter disgruntlement in Shia-dominated southern Iraq over the government's inability to ... «IHS Jane's 360, Jul 15»
9
Volunteer Fired From Charity Shop Because Of Inability To Use …
She says that she's been let go as a volunteer from one of the charity's shops because of an inability to use a computer. The great-grandmother ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
10
When I got dumped for my inability to play guitar
When I got dumped for my inability to play guitar. By Tony Masikonde Updated Sunday, July 12th 2015 at 15:03 GMT +3 ... «SDE Entertainment News, Jul 15»

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