- incapacity (of somebody/something) (to do something)
lack of ability or skill 无能力；缺乏技能 their incapacity to govern effectively 他们缺乏有效治理的能力
the state of being too ill to do your work or take care of yourself 卧病；孱弱
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French incapacité or late Latin incapacitas, from in- (expressing negation) + capacitas (from capax, capac- ‘that can contain’, from capere ‘take or hold’).