Incapacity vs Affliction - What's the difference?
incapacity | affliction | Related terms |
The lack of a capacity; an inability
* 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
A state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.
Something which causes pain, suffering, distress or agony.
*1913 ,
*:She wore a man's long ulster (not as if it were an affliction , but as if it were very comfortable and belonged to her; carried it like a young soldier) [...]
Incapacity is a related term of affliction.
As nouns the difference between incapacity and affliction
is that incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability while affliction is a state of pain, suffering, distress or agony.incapacity
English
Noun
(incapacities)- 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;