Definition of "incapacities" [incapacities]

• Plural form of incapacity. (noun)

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• ""incapacities," "incumbrance," is written on the brow of every woman they meet."
• "The big question is which of these incapacities are contingent -- specific to particular conditions and institutional arrangements, and thus remediable -- and which are structural, inherent in any system of representative government."
• "Nor can they be explained by the myth of the Negro's innate incapacities, or by the more sophisticated rationalization of his acquired infirmities."