Incapacity vs Impediment - What's the difference?
incapacity | impediment | Related terms |
The lack of a capacity; an inability
* 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.
* Shakespeare
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(chiefly, in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta
Incapacity is a related term of impediment.
As nouns the difference between incapacity and impediment
is that incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability while impediment is a hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.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;
impediment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus far into the bowels of the land / Have we marched on without impediment .
citation, passage=I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.}}
- Working in a noisy factory left him with a slight hearing impediment .