Disability

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The condition of being disabled; incapacity.
  • n. The period of such a condition: never received a penny during her disability.
  • n. A disadvantage or deficiency, especially a physical or mental impairment that interferes with or prevents normal achievement in a particular area.
  • n. Something that hinders or incapacitates.
  • n. Law A legal incapacity or disqualification.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
  • n. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
  • n. Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
  • n. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Want of competent power, strength, or physical or mental ability: weakness; incapacity; impotence: as, disability arising from infirmity; a blind person labors under great disability.
  • n. Specifically Want of competent means or instruments.
  • n. Want of legal capacity or qualification; legal incapacity; incapacity to do an act with legal effect.
  • n. Synonyms Disability. Inability, incompetence, incapacity, disqualification, unfitness. Disability implies deprivation or loss of power; inability indicates rather inherent want of power. One declines an office from inability to discharge its duties, but is not elected to it because of some external disability disqualifying him for being chosen.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
  • Antonym
    potence    qualification    strength    potential    capacity    competency    ability    competence   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    softness    unfitness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    illness    impairment    defect    inconvenience    disadvantage    ailment    impediment    injury    hardship    discomfort