| 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: | 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: | disqualification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disability; rejection for participation |
Synonyms: |
awkwardness, clumsiness, debarment, disenablement, disentitlement, elimination, exclusion, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, ineligibility, ineptitude, lack, unfitness, unproficiency |
Antonyms: |
ability, aptitude, capability |
| 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: | ignorance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unintelligence, inexperience |
Synonyms: |
benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
Antonyms: |
competence, cultivation, education, experience, intelligence, knowledge, literacy, talent, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | inability |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
ability, capacity, competence, skill, talent |
| Main Entry: | inadequacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortage, defect, inability |
Synonyms: |
blemish, dearth, defalcation, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, drawback, failing, faultiness, flaw, imperfection, inadequateness, inaptness, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, incompleteness, ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, inefficacy, inefficiency, ineptitude, insufficiency, lack, meagerness, paucity, poverty, scantiness, shortcoming, skimpiness, underage, unfitness, unsuitableness, weakness |
Antonyms: |
ability, adequacy, enough, plenty, sufficiency |
| Main Entry: | helplessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incompetence |
Synonyms: |
failure, inability, incapacity, powerlessness, weakness |
| Main Entry: | stupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dullness of mind |
Synonyms: |
absurdity, apathy, asininity, battiness, brainlessness, doltishness, fatuity, fatuousness, feeble-mindedness, idiocy, ignorance, imbecility, imprudence, incapacity, ineptitude, injudiciousness, insensibility, lunacy, nitwittedness, nonsense, obtuseness, puerility, shallowness, silliness, simplicity, slowness, slowness, sluggishness, stolidity, stupefaction, stupidness, stupor, thick-headedness, weak-mindedness, weakness |
Antonyms: |
intelligence, judgment, wisdom |
| Main Entry: | illiteracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
Synonyms: |
benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiterateness, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |