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Definition of Incapableness
1. Noun. Lack of potential for development.
Generic synonyms: Inaptitude
Antonyms: Capability
Derivative terms: Incapable
2. Noun. The quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally.
Generic synonyms: Inability, Unfitness
Specialized synonyms: Incapacity
Antonyms: Capability, Capableness
Derivative terms: Incapable, Incapable, Incapable, Incapable
Definition of Incapableness
1. n. The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
Definition of Incapableness
1. Noun. The quality or state of being incapable; incapability. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incapableness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Incapableness
Literary usage of Incapableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1867)
"The philosophy of conversion to Romanism might be illustrated by the experience
of this convert, if we could know whether the incapableness is to be ..."
2. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1867)
"Surely some marvelous incapableness of truth—some lamentable deficiency, either
moral or intellectual,—cannot but underlie such statements as these. ..."
3. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1889)
"It is incredible but for facts a thousand thick, one coming in after the other
to tell the tale of incapableness. The men are not altogether wanting in good ..."
4. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"... and, though he will say nothing of philosophy, he will have a certain mastery
in dealing with them, and an incapableness of being dazzled or frighted, ..."
5. The American Negro: What He Was, what He Is, and what He May Become; a by William Hannibal Thomas (1901)
"Lacking a trained and comprehending intelligence, they are blind to every weakness,
and of necessity ignorant of their incapableness, and are therefore ..."
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