About The Word Disability
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Disability
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What's The Definition Of Disability?
[n] the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Disability: disablement | handicap | impairment Related Terms | Find terms related to Disability: abnormality | acute disease | affection | affliction | ailment | allergic disease | allergy | atrophy | bacterial disease | birth defect | blight | cardiovascular disease | chronic disease | circulatory disease | complaint | complication | condition | congenital defect | defect | deficiency disease | deformity | degenerative disease | detriment | disablement | disadvantage | disease | disorder | disqualification | distemper | drawback | endemic | endemic disease | endocrine disease | epidemic disease | functional disease | fungus disease | gastrointestinal disease | genetic disease | handicap | helplessness | hereditary disease | iatrogenic disease | illness | imbecility | impairment | impotence | inability | inadequacy | incapability | incapacitation | incapacity | incompetence | incompetency | indisposition | inefficiency | ineptitude | infancy | infectious disease | inferiority | infirmity | insufficiency | legal incapacity | malady | malaise | minority | morbidity | morbus | muscular disease | neurological disease | nutritional disease | occupational disease | organic disease | pandemic disease | pathological condition | pathology | plant disease | powerlessness | protozoan disease | psychosomatic disease | respiratory disease | rockiness | secondary disease | seediness | sickishness | sickness | signs | symptomatology | symptomology | symptoms | syndrome | the pip | unfitness | urogenital disease | virus disease | wardship | wasting disease | worm disease See Also | amputation | anorgasmia | astasia | bad condition | bandy legs | bow leg | bow legs | bowleg | descensus | disability of walking | dysomia | genu valgum | genu varum | hearing impairment | hearing loss | hypesthesia | hypoesthesia | knock-knee | pigeon toes | poor shape | prolapse | prolapsus | tibia valga | tibia vara | unfitness | vision defect | visual defect | visual disorder | visual impairment Disability In Webster's Dictionary \Dis`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Disabilities}.
1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability;
absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral
power, means, fitness, and the like.
Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was
covenanted. --Milton.
Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability.
--Bancroft.
2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal
incapacity or incompetency.
The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture.
--Abbott.
Syn: Weakness; inability; incompetence; impotence;
incapacity; incompetency; disqualification.
Usage: -- {Disability}, {Inability}. Inability is an inherent
want of power to perform the thing in question;
disability arises from some deprivation or loss of the
needed competency. One who becomes deranged is under a
disability of holding his estate; and one who is made
a judge, of deciding in his own case. A man may
decline an office on account of his inability to
discharge its duties; he may refuse to accept a trust
or employment on account of some disability prevents
him from entering into such engagements.
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