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Mutilation vs Incapacitation - What's the difference?

mutilation | incapacitation |

As nouns the difference between mutilation and incapacitation

is that mutilation is the act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated while incapacitation is the act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.

mutilation

English

Noun

  • The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.

    • Hyponyms

    * female genital mutilation * male genital mutilation

    Related terms

    * body modification

    incapacitation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
  • * 1822 , , The Best Letters of Charles Lamb , LXVIII. To Wordsworth. March 20:
    • I dare not whisper to myself a pension on this side of absolute incapacitation and infirmity, till years have sucked me dry.
  • * 2006 Dec. 14, , " Johnson's Illness Puts Control of the Senate in Doubt," Time :
    • The incapacitation of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has put all eyes in Washington on what is normally a little-noticed Senate vote now scheduled for Jan. 4.

    Synonyms

    * disablement