Disability

Noun

 * 1) State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
 * 2) Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4)  Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state

Adjectives for Disability
total; grim; physical; permanent; financial; partial; inescapable.

Verbs for Disability
attend with—; cope with—; bring on—; complain of—; create—; cripple by—; gloat over—; increase—; labor under—; lessen—; remove—; stress—; —paralyzes; —prevents; —restricts; —tortures.

Synonyms for Disability
disqualification, impotence, inability, incapacity, incompetency, incompetence, weakness, unfitness, decrepitude, infirmity, defect, feebleness, uselessness, powerlessness, inadequacy, disqualification, forfeiture.

Antonyms for Disability
ability, capacity, competence, competency, potence, potential, qualification, strength, fitness, power, capability, efficacy, potentiality, force, suitableness, effectiveness, adaptability, recommendation

Related terms

 * disable
 * disabled
 * disablism

Thesaurus
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, 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,

Etymology
From dis-:, a prefix meaning a reversal of something, and from  habilitas:. See able.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: неспособност
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 * Macedonian: неспособност, инвалидитет


 * Bulgarian:


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 * French: infirmité