| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun Plural | 1. Plural inflection of the noun incapacity.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Noun Base (incapacity) | 1. Lack of intellectual power.[Wordnet]. 2. Lack of physical or natural qualifications.[Wordnet]. 3. Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.[Websters]. 4. Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.[Websters]. | |
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Date "INCAPACITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1739. (references) |
Specialty Definition: incapacity
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] Want of capacity, intellectual power, or the power of receiving, containing or understanding; applied to the mind, and it may be natural or casual. There is a natural incapacity in children to comprehend difficult propositions in logic or metaphysics, and a natural incapacity in men to comprehend the nature of spiritual beings. The defect of understanding proceeding from intoxication, or from an injury done to the brain, is a casual incapacity.. | 2: [Noun] Want of qualification or legal requisites; inability; as the incapacity of minors to make binding contracts.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Health | Refers to a person's mental status and means inability to understand information presented, to appreciate the consequences of acting (or not acting) on that information, and to make a choice. Often used as a synonym for incompetence. (See also: Incompetence.). (references) | ||
| Law | INCAPACITY. 1. The want of a quality legally to do, give, transmit, or receive something. 2. It arises from nature, from the law, or from both. From nature, when the party has not his senses, as, in the case of an idiot; from the law, as, in the case of a bastard who cannot inherit from nature and the law; as, in the case of a married woman, who cannot make contracts or a will. 3. In general, the incapacity ceases with the cause which produces it. If the idiot should obtain his senses, or the married woman's husband die, their incapacity would be at an end. 4. When a cause of action arises during the incapacity of a person having the right to sue, the act of limitation does not, in general, commence to run till the incapacity has been removed. But two incapacities cannot be joined in order to come within the statute. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | [Noun] The lack of a capacity; an inability 1605: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning So that it is not the insufficiency or incapacity of man's mind, but it is the remote standing or placing thereof that breedeth these mazes and incomprehensions;. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: incapacity
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Commission of a criminal act while in a state of voluntarily-induced mental incapacity | Law | An offence against public order in which a person is incapable of forming criminal intent as a result of voluntarily induced intoxication through alcohol or drugs, and while in this state commits an act punishable as a felony or misdemeanor. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Mental incapacity | Law | The incapability of a person, due to mental illness, mental deficiency or a serious disturbance of the mind, to appreciate that his act is wrong or to conduct himself in accordance with his appreciation of the wrongfulness of an act. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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