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Incapacity vs Disablement - What's the difference?

incapacity | disablement | Related terms |

Incapacity is a related term of disablement.


As nouns the difference between incapacity and disablement

is that incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability while disablement is (formal) the action of disabling or the state of being disabled.

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;

    Related terms

    * inoperancy

    disablement

    English

    Noun

  • (formal) The action of disabling or the state of being disabled.
    • The world would change if countries agreed to the disablement of all nuclear weapons.

    Synonyms

    * incapacitation

    Related terms

    * disable