The phrase "an inability to explain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a lack of capacity or skill to provide a clear explanation about a topic or situation.
Example: "The scientist faced an inability to explain the unexpected results of the experiment, leaving the team puzzled."
Alternatives: "a failure to articulate" or "a lack of clarity in explanation."
So they arrived in Arizona with excitement and an inability to explain just how they made it.
If the teaching of weaknesses is mandated, a textbook might be forced to say that evolution has an "inability to explain the Cambrian Explosion," according to the group Texans for Better Science Education, which questions evolution.
A bad situation was made worse by bungled handing and an inability to explain how the policy might have been worse if the Tories, or Labour, were governing alone.
One of the first things Chuck Norris said to me was that perhaps the hardest part of being home was his inability to describe Iraq — and along with that, of course, an inability to explain its effect on him — to anyone who hadn't been there.
They argue both that normal human anxieties are being pathologized and that the diagnostic criteria for anxiety and depression have been much too sharply distinguished from those for depression, leading to an inability to explain why depression and anxiety so ofter co-occur.
The parks help although we are still experiencing at times very violent meltdowns, sickness, numerous fights with siblings, and an inability to explain what's happening to her.
Washington, who at least seems like a nice person and does when good things happen for his team, shares with Herman Cain an affably abject inability to explain his own decisions and actions.
For a start there was the inability to explain how the first estimate of the deficit – £60m – had been arrived at.
This inability to explain a major part of the genetic influence by known genetic variations has been defined as 'missing heritability'.
As Wolfgang Münchau writes in the Financial Times, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) "keeps criticising Angela Merkel's policies on the eurozone, but ends up supporting whatever policies she drags before the Bundestag".What is most infuriating is the SPD's sheer inability to explain in a clear way why the chancellor is wrong.
Non-naturalism's apparent inability to explain such a basic platitude as global supervenience poses a serious problem (see Mackie 1977, Blackburn 1984, and Blackburn 1988).
