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Decisional Incapacity(health)

incapacity (iou)



incapacity noun. E17.
[French incapacite or late Latin incapacitas, formed as IN-3 + capacitas CAPACITY.]
Lack of capacity; inability, powerlessness; an instance of this. (Foll. by for, of, to do.) E17.
G. A. Birmingham A man who might make a wreck of a boat through incapacity to manage her. E. Crankshaw Inhibited by..ignorance and intellectual incapacity, he failed to think of anything effective to do.
b. Inability to take, receive, or deal with something in some way. Foll. by for, of. M17.
Legal disqualification; an instance of this. M17.
C. Merivale The laws..inflicted upon him civil incapacity to the fullest extent.