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Noun
en-noun|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. -Milton.
#:Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. -Bancroft.
- Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
#:The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture. -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.
Synonyms
disqualification
impotence
inability
incapacity
incompetency
incompetence
weakness
Antonyms
ability
capacity
competence
competency
potence
potential
qualification
strength
Related terms
disable
disabled
disablism
Usage notes
Disability, 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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