disability.
A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
Meaning & usage
A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
people with disabilities
The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
A limitation in function (the things that a person can do or achieve) that is driven by any combination of their impairments (the medical facts about them) and the imperfect state of society's inaccessibility that sometimes fails to accommodate their needs.
An inability.
A lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.
A lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency. A duty to refrain from altering a person's legal relations; correlative of an immunity.
Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state.
I had to go on disability after the accident.
Did you get your disability this month?
Where this word comes from
Circa 1570 disable + -ity.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.