Incapacity vs Infirmity - What's the difference?
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The lack of a capacity; an inability
* 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
a moral weakness or defect
As nouns the difference between incapacity and infirmity
is that incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability while infirmity is feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.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;