Incapacity vs Inadequacy - What's the difference?
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The lack of a capacity; an inability
* 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
The state of being inadequate.
A shortage of required material.
A lack of competence or ability.
Incapacity is a related term of inadequacy.
As nouns the difference between incapacity and inadequacy
is that incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability while inadequacy is the state of being inadequate.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;