Disability
[dɪsə'bɪlɪtɪ] or [,dɪsə'bɪləti]
Definition
(noun.) the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; 'reading disability'; 'hearing impairment'.
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Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1].Disqualification.[2].Inability, incapacity, incompetence, impotence, incapability.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Disqualification, impotency, unfitness, incapacity, forfeiture, incompetency
ANT:Qualification, recommendation, fitness, deserving, merit
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Examples
- GRANT: General Foster has asked to be relieved from his command on account of disability from old wounds. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Was it a growing distaste for her task, or actual physical disability? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In spite, however, of the physical disabilities of scientists, the stereoscope finally made its way in France. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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