incapacity to do something• Cossiga commented publicly on Galloni's apparent incapacity tohandlecomplexMafia and drug-trafficking investigations.• Even as he sensed his incapacity to make such a choice, it was made for him.• Dissatisfied with its incapacity to make councils cut spending, the government adopted a finalsanction - rate capping.• She had found a cause, and the cause wasn't yet debased by her own incapacity to believe.