incapacity
C1CEFR level
60/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
A lack of the mental ability required to make a particular decision at a given time.
During periods of incapacity, decisions must be made in the patient's best interests.
Law noun
Inability to work or function that results from injury or illness.
Damages reflected two years of total incapacity following the accident.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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