Incapacity vs Impairment - What's the difference?
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The lack of a capacity; an inability
* 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
The result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor.
(accounting) A downward revaluation, a write-down.
As nouns the difference between incapacity and impairment
is that incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability while impairment is the result of being impaired; a deterioration or weakening; a disability or handicap; an inefficient part or factor.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;