"inability" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: cognition, knowledge, noesis - the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
subtypes:
- block, mental block - an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension
- stupidity - a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
- inaptitude - a lack of aptitude
- incapacity - lack of intellectual power
- unskillfulness - a lack of cognitive skill
- analphabetism, illiteracy - an inability to read
- uncreativeness - a lack of creativity
- incomprehension - an inability to understand
is a type of: quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone
subtypes:
- unadaptability - the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances
- insensitiveness, insensitivity - the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment
- incompetence, incompetency - lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
- incapability, incapableness - the quality of not being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally
- insufficiency - (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
same as: unfitness