inability to do something• Her actions show an inability todistinguish between fantasy and reality.• Many have blamed what they termed an inability to win on an inability to hit more than one shape of shot.• Such patience was nothing less than satanic, especially in light of my general inability tomaintain stillness.• He even blamed his parents for his inability to make friends.• I might never have identified his inability toread if it had not been for an entirely socialhappenstance.• Again, signer 2 differed notably from the others in his inability to use two lexicalitems simultaneously.• I do believe it wasn't just inability tocope with a terriblehandicap.• Voters are becoming frustrated at the inability of the administration to do anything about the debtcrisis.• More wounding than the question is the inability to give a coherent answer.• A big reason why retailers file for bankruptcy is their inability to get credit.• This was happening more and more, this inability to cope, this giving in to rawemotion whenever he was alone.