"unability" meaning in All languages combined

See unability on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: unabilities [plural]
Etymology: From un- + ability. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|un|ability|id1=negative}} un- + ability Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} unability (usually uncountable, plural unabilities)
  1. Lack of ability; inability. Tags: uncountable, usually

Inflected forms

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          "text": "difficulty doth not make me despaire, much lesse my unability: for it is but mine owne.",
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          "ref": "1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:",
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          "ref": "1999, Christian Bühler, Harry Knops, Assistive Technology on the Threshold of the New Millennium:",
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          "ref": "2012, Johan H. C. Reiber, P.W. Serruys, Advances in Quantitative Coronary Arteriography:",
          "text": "Failures were related to the unability to selectively place the guiding catheter at the coronary ostium in 2 cases and to the unability to cross the lesion in 8 cases.",
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          "text": "Equally ambivalent is the attempt to operationalize country risk by differentiating a sovereign debtor's \"unability\" and \"unwillingness\" to pay.",
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          "ref": "2012, Julian F. Johnson, Roger S. Porter, Liquid Crystals and Ordered Fluids - Volume 2:",
          "text": "The main factors that determine the location of the boundaries for the region of existence of a phase and thus its transition to another phase seem to be its ability or unability to incorporate water.",
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          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2012, Johan H. C. Reiber, P.W. Serruys, Advances in Quantitative Coronary Arteriography:",
          "text": "Failures were related to the unability to selectively place the guiding catheter at the coronary ostium in 2 cases and to the unability to cross the lesion in 8 cases.",
          "type": "quote"
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