Associations to the word «Disability»

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Wiktionary

DISABILITY, noun. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
DISABILITY, noun. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
DISABILITY, noun. (uncountable) (informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state
DISABILITY SPORT, noun. (countable) (sport) A sport played by people with a physical disability
DISABILITY SPORT, noun. (uncountable) (British) Collectively, all disability sports
DISABILITY SPORTS, noun. Plural of disability sport

Dictionary definition

DISABILITY, noun. The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness; "reading disability"; "hearing impairment".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats