disability

English

Etymology

Circa 1570 disable +‎ -ity.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/

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Noun

disability (usually uncountable, plural disabilities)

1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
   • 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.

   • 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.

2. A mental condition causing a difficulty with an intellectual task.

   Dyscalculia is math disability.

3. (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

4. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
5. (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?

Synonyms

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• disqualification
• impotence
• inability
• incapacity
• incompetency
• incompetence
• weakness

Antonyms

• ability
• capacity
• competence
• competency
• potence
• potential
• qualification
• strength

Derived terms

• cognitive disability
• developmental disability
• disability-adjusted life year
• disability sport
• I have a disability
• intellectual disability
• learning disability
• pan-disability
• print disability

 

Related terms

• disable
• disabled
• disablism

Translations

state of being disabled

• Armenian: հաշմանդամություն (hy) (hašmandamutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: инвалидност (bg) f (invalidnost)
• Catalan: discapacitat (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殘廢／残废 (zh) (cánfèi), 殘疾／残疾 (zh) (cánjí), 殘障／残障 (zh) (cánzhàng)

• Finnish: vammaisuus (fi)
• Georgian: ინვალიდობა (invalidoba)
• Hungarian: mozgáskorlátozottság, mozgássérültség, fogyatékkal élés, (dated) rokkantság (hu), (possibly offensive) fogyatékosság (hu)
• Indonesian: disabilitas
• Japanese: 障害 (ja) (しょうがい, shōgai)
• Kazakh: мүгедектік (mügedektık)
• Korean: 장애(障礙) (ko) (jang'ae)
• Lithuanian: neįgalumas m
• Macedonian: попреченост f (poprečenost)
• Malayalam: വികലത (ml) (vikalata)
• Maori: hauātanga
• Romanian: dizabilitate f
• Sanskrit: रपस् (sa) n (rapas)
• Serbo-Croatian: onesposobljenost f
• Thai: ความพิการ (th) (kwaam-pí-gaan)
• Turkish: engellilik (tr)

mental condition

• Finnish: häiriö (fi), toimintakyvyn haitta
• Hungarian: értelmi fogyatékosság

legal incapacity or incompetency

• Bulgarian: неправоспособност (bg) f (nepravosposobnost)
• Czech: invalidita (cs) f, postižení (cs) n
• Finnish: vajaavaltaisuus, oikeustoimikelvottomuus
• French: invalidité (fr) f
• German: Behinderung (de) f
• Hungarian: jogképesség hiánya, akadályoztatás (hu)
• Portuguese: incompetência (pt) f
• Romanian: handicap (ro) n
• Russian: неправоспосо́бность (ru) f (nepravosposóbnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: invalidnost (sh) f, invaliditet (sh) m
• Spanish: incapacidad (es) f
• Turkish: sakatlık (tr)

regular payments received by a disabled person

• Czech: invalidní důchod m
• Finnish: vammaiseläke, työkyvyttömyyseläke (fi)
• French: pension d’invalidité f
• Hungarian: rokkantnyugdíj (hu)
• Polish: renta (pl) f
• Russian: посо́бие по инвали́дности n (posóbije po invalídnosti)
• Serbo-Croatian: invalidska penzija f, invalidska mirovina f

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• German: ^{(please verify)} Invalidität (de) f
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} неспособност f (nesposobnost), ^{(please verify)} инвалидите́т m (invaliditét)
• Manx: ^{(please verify)} anheiltys m
• Turkish: ^{(please verify)} sakatlık (tr)