Incapacity vs Sickliness - What's the difference?
incapacity | sickliness |
The lack of a capacity; an inability
* 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
The state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.
* , Richard II , act 2, sc. 1:
* 1843 , , Martin Chuzzlewit , ch. 9:
* 1847 , , Agnes Grey , ch. 7:
As nouns the difference between incapacity and sickliness
is that incapacity is the lack of a capacity; an inability while sickliness is the state or characteristic of weakness, incapacity, or physical distress due to poor health, especially of a chronic nature.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;
sickliness
English
Noun
(-)- I do beseech your majesty, impute his words
- To wayward sickliness and age in him.
- Gradually it gave place to a smile; a feeble, helpless, melancholy smile; bland, almost to sickliness .
- My devotions were disturbed with a feeling of languor and sickliness , and the tormenting fear of its becoming worse: and a depressing headache was generally my companion throughout the day.