The phrase "incapacity for" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means a lack of ability or skill to do something. Example: His incapacity for empathy made it difficult for him to understand others' feelings.
NEW Yorkers tend to pride themselves on their incapacity for astonishment.
Although she claims to share her father's "incapacity for reminiscence," she and I went there to talk about her past.
In its portrait of Shakespeare wrestling with his incapacity for meaningful action, it raised profound questions about the political impotence of even the greatest artist.
After visiting Central Park, Song wrote, "The bad thing is that I don't have a friend with me there," and he has reflected on his incapacity for leisure.
But his apparent incapacity for even the slightest degree of self-awareness and self-inquiry is his most troubling -- and dangerous -- quality.
"I mustn't inflict myself on Mr Waterhouse with my inferior mind and my general incapacity for much except motherhood," she says, sarcastically, to a Tory bore.
According to David James Smith's informants, he was a gentle sort deformed by his authoritarian father's incapacity for affection and "unrelenting scrutiny".
Even then, he seems to have been blessed with an incapacity for shame, a gift for which he had many occasions to be thankful.
As Edward Graham, advice and rights manager of the Child Poverty Action Group, says: "The test for incapacity for work is wrong.
In later life, Dirac would become proverbial for his lack of social and emotional skills and his incapacity for small talk.
Problems with work were reported in 21 50% of the adult patients, with permanent incapacity for work in 1 5%.
