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Incapacity vs Infirmity - What's the difference?

incapacity | infirmity | Related terms |

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)
  • The lack of a capacity; an inability
  • * 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
  • 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;

    infirmity

    English

    Noun

    (infirmities)
  • feebleness, frailty or ailment, especially due to old age.
  • a moral weakness or defect