disability
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
[edit] Noun
disability (plural disabilities)
- 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. - John Milton.
- Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. - George Bancroft.
- Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
- The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture. - Benjamin Vaughan Abbott.
- The combination of a physical or intellectual impairment of an individual and the social attitudes and environment that prevents a person from living a full, normal life or from performing his/her normal job.
- He has a mental disability.
- (uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state
- I had to go on disability after the accident.
- Did you get your disability this month?
[edit] Usage notes
- Disability and 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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lack of ability relative to a personal or group standard or spectrum
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legal incapacity or incompetency
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physical or intellectual impairment
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