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disability

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Etymology

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Circa 1570 disable +‎ -ity.

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Noun

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disability (countable and uncountable, plural disabilities)

  1. (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.
  2. (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).
  3. A mental condition causing a difficulty with an intellectual task.
    Dyscalculia is math disability.
  4. (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
  5. (countable, obsolete) Inability.
    Synonym: impotence
  6. (countable, law) Lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.
    Synonym: disqualification
    Antonyms: capacity, competency, qualification
  7. (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?

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