INABILITY Copy link • INABILITYby circumlocution with facere aliquid non posse, etc.: or non potentem esse alicujus rei or ad aliquid faciendum. [Vid: INCAPABLE.] ☞ Impotentia can only be used either with a genitive, irae, animi, etc., in the sense of “inability to restrain one’s wrath, govern one’s temper,” etc., or absolutely, in the sense of “weakness,” hinc intelligitur... tacita impotentiae exprobratio, Quint., 6, 2, 16. Sometimes imbecillitas, infirmitas (weakness) may serve. Inability to pay, by circumlocution with solvendo non esse; solvere non posse, non idoneum esse. Vid: SOLVENT.