Usually means: Lack of skill, power, or capability.
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  1. inability: Merriam-Webster
  2. inability: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inability: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inability: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inability: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inability, inability: Wordnik
  7. inability: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inability: Wiktionary
  9. inability: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inability: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inability: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inability, inability: Dictionary.com
  13. inability: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Inability: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. inability: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. inability: Rhymezone
  17. inability: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. inability: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. inability: FreeDictionary.org
  20. inability: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. inability: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. inability: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inability)

▸ noun:  Lack of the ability to do something; incapability.
▸ noun:  Lack of the option to do something; powerlessness.

Similar:
unfitness, unwillingness, incapability, refusal, unable, inabilities, ability, failure, reluctance, incapacity, more...

Opposite:
ability, capability, competence, proficiency, skill

Types:
ineptitude, incompetence, incapacity, dysfunction, more...

Phrases:
total inability, inability to sleep, inability to smell, inability to speak, inability to understand, more...

Adjectives:
own, apparent, utter, total, complete, general, consequent, physical, sheer, relative, moral

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Similar:
unfitness, unwillingness, incapability, refusal, unable, inabilities, ability, failure, reluctance, incapacity, more...

Opposite:
ability, capability, competence, proficiency, skill

Types:
ineptitude, incompetence, incapacity, dysfunction, more...

Phrases:
total inability, inability to sleep, inability to smell, inability to speak, inability to understand, the inability to remember a word, inability to change, inability to communicate, inability to, more...

Adjectives:
own, apparent, utter, total, complete, general, consequent, physical, sheer, relative, moral

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     dull brown,     pale blue,     washed-out yellow, more...



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