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So I know that **すぎる** means too much, like **昨日お酒を飲みすぎた** , etc.

but when it comes to something like:

> **何々をすることができなさすぎる**

Does it mean:

1 - I can't do "this" at all.

or

2 - I can't do "this" too much.

So if I say:

> **納豆を食べることができなさすぎる/食べられなさすぎる。**

Do I mean I can't eat natto at all, or do I mean I can eat it just a little,
but can't eat it too much?

And if "1" is the right answer, how different is it from things like
**全然できない/全くできない?**
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What does できなさすぎる mean?
納豆を食べることができなさすぎる/食べられなさすぎる means "I can't eat natto at all" or "I am so
terribly bad at natto", but it's a humorous slangy expression rather than a
standard sentence. It's fine as the catchy title of a blog post or a light
novel, but we should be using 全く/全然できない most of the time.

In general, ～すぎる is occasionally used as a humorous intensifier these days. It
can be _positive_.

>   * お前のことが好きすぎる
>   * 美しすぎるアスリート10名
>   * これは便利すぎる！ Amazonで見つけた調理器具
>   * 天使過ぎるアイドル ([Kanna
> Hashimoto](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanna_Hashimoto)'s catchphrase;
> maybe this is the cause of the recent popularity of ～すぎる?)
>
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A little grammatical supplement...

If you want to have partial negation, that compared to English "not ... too
much", you should use ～すぎない. It works like "no too much ...ing".

On the other hand, ～なさすぎる is just like saying "too much of not ...ing", that
is, excessiveness of "not doing". As you can see, it sometimes could invoke
some funny visualization that you're trying to negate something whose
existence is already down to zero, and the rest goes to @naturo's answer...
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