Incapacity vs Disqualification - What's the difference?
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The lack of a capacity; an inability
* 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.
That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor.
(label): The act of being forbidden from further play in a basketball game due to the accumulation of too many personal fouls.
As nouns the difference between incapacity and disqualification
is that incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability while disqualification is the act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.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;