In′/ca-păs′/i-ty, n.

n. [Prefix in, not, and capacity; Fr. incapacité, Sp. incapacidad, It. incapacità, from Lat. incapax, incapable.]

1. Want of capacity; defect of intellectual power; absence or defect of ability for any function of the soul, whether knowledge, feeling, or choice; inability to discharge a duty or to fill an office.
2. (Law.) Want of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the incapacity of minors to make binding contracts, &c.

Syn.—Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification.