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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disabling lack of talent, skill |
| Synonyms: | disqualification, failure, frailty, impotence, inadequacy, inaptitude, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, inefficiency, ineptitude, ineptness, insufficiency, inutility, lack, necessity, powerlessness, shortcoming, unfitness, weakness |
| Notes: | debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something |
| Antonyms: | ability, capacity, competence, skill, talent |
| Main Entry: | dependence/dependency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addiction, need |
| Synonyms: | attachment, contingency, habit, helplessness, hook, inability, security blanket, servility, subjection, subordination, subservience, vulnerability, weakness, yoke |
| Antonyms: | independence, subtraction, want |
| Main Entry: | disability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disadvantage, restriction |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailment, defect, detriment, disqualification, drawback, impairment, inability, incapacity, incompetency, inexperience, infirmity, injury, invalidity, lack, unfitness, weakness |
| Notes: | debility is the state of being weak in health or body; disability is the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; inability is lack of mental ability or physical ability to do something |
| Antonyms: | advantage, fitness, strength |
| Main Entry: | feebleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of strength; ineffectiveness |
| Synonyms: | debility, decrepitude, delicacy, disease, effeteness, enervation, etiolation, exhaustion, flimsiness, frailness, frailty, inability, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectualness, infirmity, infirmness, insignificance, insufficiency, lameness, languor, lassitude, malaise, senility, sickliness, unhealthiness, weakness |
| Antonyms: | ability, effectiveness, health, heartiness, power, soundness, strength |
| Main Entry: | helplessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incompetence |
| Synonyms: | failure, inability, incapacity, powerlessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | incapacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inadequacy |
| Synonyms: | disqualification, inability, incapability, insufficiency |
| Notes: | incapacitation is the action of making incapable; incapacity is a lack of ability or qualification |
| Main Entry: | incompetence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of ability |
| Synonyms: | inability, inadequacy, ineptitude, inexperience |
| Notes: | incompetence is unacceptable levels of performance; incompetency is insanity or inability to stand trial or testify |
| Main Entry: | inefficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incompetence |
| Synonyms: | carelessness, disorganization, inability, incapability, wastefulness |
| Main Entry: | ineptitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incapacity |
| Synonyms: | awkwardness, clumsiness, inability, incompetence, ineptness, ungracefulness |
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