disability

Plural

disabilities

1. 1.A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.

   • Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. The King himself intervened by a letter[…]Chatham yielded to such persuasion; though suffering from a universal tremor.

2. 2.The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.

3. 3.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.

4. 4.A lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.

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