inability
/ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪti/ noun C1- Lack of the ability to do something; incapability.
- Lack of the option to do something; powerlessness.
Plural inabilities
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It was not so much the conviction that she was disinherited that caused her grief, but her total inability to account for the feelings which had provoked her grandfather to such an act.
Cavalcanti, as the count’s father, who highly approved of the union, regretted his inability to leave Parma at that time, and promised a wedding gift of a hundred and fifty thousand livres.
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