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Unability vs Inability - What's the difference?

unability | inability |

As nouns the difference between unability and inability

is that unability is inability while inability is lack of the ability to do something; incapability.

unability

English

Noun

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  • (obsolete) Inability.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:difficulty doth not make me despaire, much lesse my unability : for it is but mine owne.
  • *1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
  • *:there being so many whose businesse and profession meerly it is, to be the champions of Truth; which if they neglect, what can be imputed but their sloth, or unability ?

    • inability

    English

    Noun

    (inabilities)
  • lack of the ability to do something; incapability
  • * 2013 , Daniel Taylor, Jack Wilshere scores twice to ease Arsenal to victory over Marseille'' (in ''The Guardian , 26 November 2013)[http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/nov/26/arsenal-marseille-match-report-champions-league]
    • The Premier League leaders did what many people thought was beyond them in their last European excursion, at the home of Borussia Dortmund, and they made light work of overcoming Marseille on a night when the one-sidedness was not reflected by their inability to add to Jack Wilshere's two goals.