inability

Other forms of inability

plural

inabilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about inability

What does inability mean?

inability means "lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inability?

inability has 5 syllables: in-a-bil-i-ty. The stress falls on "bil". In IPA it is /ˌɪnəˈbɪlɪti/.

What is another word for inability?

Close synonyms include unfitness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of inability?

The recorded antonyms are ability, ability.

Is inability a common word?

inability is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with inability?

48 words rhyme with inability. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.