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Incapacity vs Affliction - What's the difference?

incapacity | affliction | Related terms |

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)
  • The lack of a capacity; an inability
  • * 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
  • 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;

    affliction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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) [...]