Synonym: incapability, incompetence, ineptitude. Antonym: ability. Similar words: sustainability, ability, viability, liability, stability, disability, capability, durability. Meaning: [ɪnə'bɪlətɪ] n. 1. lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something 2. lacking the power to perform.
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181 Because of the visual defect, students of low vision are faced with conditions that they are anxious to see but inability to see clearly, to understand.
182 It was apathy with Hurstwood, resulting from his inability to see his way out.
183 Cytoplastic male sterility ( CMS ) in higher plants is a maternally inherited inability to produce functional pollen.
184 Before discharge, it is critical that diabetic patients be capable of eating and be relatively free of significant nausea that might lead to emesis and inability to maintain adequate caloric intake.
185 Given all this , the inability of ministers to agree , having come so close, seems unfathomable.
186 In some patients inability to describe their distress of atypical localization and symptomatology may make it impossible to appraise the condition with assurance on the initial examination.
187 Fearing that Sputnik signaled a U.S. inability to compete with the Soviet Union in technological innovation, President Dwight D. Eisenhower introduced and signed the Small Business Investment Act.
188 Therefore, the author gives some advices of perfection on multiplicity in the mainland, and a deeper study on the implications of "inability of settlement" and "stop payment".
189 Foreign bodies most commonly become lodged in the stomach because of the inability to pass through the pyloric sphincter , and in the jejunum.
190 As the biggest foreign holder of U.S. bonds, China has lambasted Washington for its inability to get its financial house in order.
191 He believes that narcolepsy is attributable to an inability to suppress REM sleep during waking.
192 Before discharge, it is critical that diabetic patients be capable of eating and be relatiely free of significant nausea that might lead to emesis and inability to maintain adequate caloric intake.
193 When there is a conflict between a developer and conservationists, for example, many of their problems may result from an inability to discuss how a parcel of land could best be used.
194 Steve Finnan today admitted Liverpool's inability to turn dominant performances into wins at Anfield is undermining the Reds' title challenge.
195 We regret our inability to anythingconcerning the firm mentioned in your letter of the 30 th ult.
196 In the emergency response phase, the inability of meeting the demand timely will trap the decision maker.
197 In the earlier days of television, an inability to take television equipment to some of the more remote spots of the world kept people from learning about many places.
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198 Henry argued that Catherine's inability to produce a male child proved that their marriage was wrong.
199 It would mean inability to close in and isolate him.
200 Some days his eyes were eloquent — laughing at our reported mishaps, listening alertly, revealing painful awareness of his inability to care for himself.
201 Objective : To investigate, the relationship between chromosome, heteromorphism and early reproduction inability.
202 Concern about the distant risk of a genuine inability to handle our national debt should not erase concern about the risk to the economy from too much short-run fiscal tightening.
203 Mental disturbances: confusion, inability to concentrate, indecisiveness , mind racing, mindlessness, or blankness.
204 And the Tuna Commission has demonstrated on annual basis , its complete inability to control the fishing.
205 The teacher was mortified by his own inability to answer such a simple question.
206 However the traditional switch also has its weak points: inability to restrain broadcasting storm, internetworking of different networks and security control.
207 These might include the inability to discern visible or auditory cues or to operate a pointing device.
208 Why is there this inability to reckon with the moral and spiritual facts?
209 Chronic inability to fall asleep or remain asleep for an adequate length of time.
210 Don't blame your broken heart on his inability to handle your extreme fabulosity.
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