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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]disability (countable and uncountable, plural disabilities)
- (countable) A condition characterised by a significant impairment to a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
- Synonym: (dated) handicap
- people with disabilities
- 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
- Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. The King himself intervened by a letter […] Chatham yielded to such persuasion; though suffering from a universal tremor.
- (uncountable) The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
- Synonyms: disabledness, (in certain contexts) incapacity
- Antonyms: ability, able-bodiedness
- 1992, Joan C. Cornoni-Huntley et al., “Epidemiology of disability in the oldest old”, in The Oldest Old, page 278:
- While physical and sensory disability is usually identified by asking a subject what he or she can or cannot do (with or without assistance), cognitive disability is assessed with a test such as a mental status questionnaire (MSQ).
- A mental condition causing a difficulty with an intellectual task.
- Dyscalculia is math disability.
- (countable, disability theory) An inability imposed on a person by society's failure to accommodate their physical or mental differences from others, as opposed to impairment.
- Synonym: handicap
- (countable, obsolete) Inability.
- Synonym: impotence
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:
- Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.
- (countable, law) Lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.
- Synonym: disqualification
- Antonyms: capacity, competency, qualification
- (uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state.
- Synonym: disability benefits
- I had to go on disability after the accident.
- Did you get your disability this month?
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]state of being disabled
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mental condition
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legal incapacity or incompetency
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regular payments received by a disabled person
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