'disability' definitions:
Definition of 'disability'
(from WordNet)
noun
The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment" [syn: disability, disablement, handicap, impairment]
Definition of 'disability'
From: GCIDE
- disability \dis`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl. Disabilities.
- 1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. [1913 Webster]
- Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency. [1913 Webster]
- The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture. --Abbott.
- Syn: Weakness; inability; incompetence; impotence; incapacity; incompetency; disqualification.
- Usage: -- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disability'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abnormality,
- acute disease,
- affection,
- affliction,
- ailment,
- allergic disease,
- allergy,
- atrophy,
- bacterial disease,
- birth defect,
- blight,
- cardiovascular disease,
- chronic disease,
- circulatory disease,
- complaint,
- complication,
- condition,
- congenital defect,
- defect,
- deficiency disease,
- deformity,
- degenerative disease,
- detriment,
- disablement,
- disadvantage,
- disease,
- disorder,
- disqualification,
- distemper,
- drawback,
- endemic,
- endemic disease,
- endocrine disease,
- epidemic disease,
- functional disease,
- fungus disease,
- gastrointestinal disease,
- genetic disease,
- handicap,
- helplessness,
- hereditary disease,
- iatrogenic disease,
- illness,
- imbecility,
- impairment,
- impotence,
- inability,
- inadequacy,
- incapability,
- incapacitation,
- incapacity,
- incompetence,
- incompetency,
- indisposition,
- inefficiency,
- ineptitude,
- infancy,
- infectious disease,
- inferiority,
- infirmity,
- insufficiency,
- legal incapacity,
- malady,
- malaise,
- minority,
- morbidity,
- morbus,
- muscular disease,
- neurological disease,
- nutritional disease,
- occupational disease,
- organic disease,
- pandemic disease,
- pathological condition,
- pathology,
- plant disease,
- powerlessness,
- protozoan disease,
- psychosomatic disease,
- respiratory disease,
- rockiness,
- secondary disease,
- seediness,
- sickishness,
- sickness,
- signs,
- symptomatology,
- symptomology,
- symptoms,
- syndrome,
- the pip,
- unfitness,
- urogenital disease,
- virus disease,
- wardship,
- wasting disease,
- worm disease