Synonyms:
inability
Meaning: lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something
Usage examples
The stranger declared her utter inability to comply with such a request.
The latter shook his head, and made a gesture indicative of his inability to reply.
Mrs Boffin, lost in her own fluttered inability to make this out, looked at Mr Boffin.
Your blustering here this afternoon can hardly conceal the fact of your failure,—your inability to keep a promise.
And, in fact, since that time he began to suffer from fever, from liver pains, and mostly from a worrying inability to think of anything else.
He had been annoyed and distressed, had even spoken of handing in his resignation because of his inability to cope with this gentleman, the Lone Wolf.
After some delay--owing to Tony's inability to balance the chafing-dish on Cristoforo Colombo's back--they filed from the gateway, an imposing cavalcade.
Two girls passing through the hall made a pretext of looking for a book and came in and exclaimed over their inability to find it with much suppressed giggling.
Even as he stood, awkward, hesitating, with an indiscreet apology for his inability trembling on his lips, came the noise of many people crying out, the running to and fro of feet.
There would be many other disadvantages in such a system, notably the inability to modulate freely to other keys, and since modulation is one of the predominant and most striking characteristics of modern music, this would constitute a serious barrier to advances in composition.