lack of adequate power, strength, or physical or mental ability; incapacity.
a physical or mental handicap, especially one that hinders or prevents a person from performing tasks of daily living, carrying out work or household responsibilities, or engaging in leisure and social activities.
anything that disables or puts one at a disadvantage: His mere six-foot height will be a disability in professional basketball.
1. Disability,inability imply a lack of power or ability. A disability is some disqualifying deprivation or loss of power, physical or other: excused because of a physical disability; a temporary disability.Inability is a lack of ability, usually because of an inherent lack of talent, power, etc.: inability to talk; inability to do well in higher mathematics.
Words nearby disability
dirty tricks, dirty war, dirty word, dirty work, dis, disability, disability clause, disability insurance, Disability Rights Commission, disable, disabled
If they’re designed well, for example, AI-based learning tools have been shown to improve children’s critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, and they can be useful for kids with learning disabilities.
Why kids need special protection from AI’s influence|Karen Hao|September 17, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Central Aroostook Association, a Presque Isle nonprofit that helps children with intellectual disabilities, switched to the co-op last year to save 20% on its health premiums, said administrator Tammi Easler.
Only three of 26 Obamacare-era nonprofit health insurance co-ops will soon remain|lbelanger225|September 6, 2020|Fortune
Users with disabilities might also want to compare their statistics to their non-wheelchair-using friends.
Smart Watches Could Do More For Wheelchair Users|John Loeppky|September 4, 2020|FiveThirtyEight
Anyone from an underrepresented group — including people of color, women, LGBTQ people and people with disabilities — is welcome to apply to be a mentee.
Hand-Picked Mentors and Networking: Apply for ProPublica’s 2020 Diversity Mentorship Program at ONA|by ProPublica|August 31, 2020|ProPublica
MTS changed its vetting process in March 2011 after the agency reported a spike in the number of seniors and people with disabilities with reduced-fare passes.
MTS Frequently Overrules Doctors’ Orders on Reduced Fares for the Disabled|Lisa Halverstadt|August 31, 2020|Voice of San Diego
Jason Kingsley, the son of one of the producers, would go on to appear 55 times on the show talking about his disability.
‘Sesame Street’ Is Middle-Aged and Awesome|Emily Shire|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What if the pain her mother and doctors observed had nothing to do with disability, but was in fact pain?
U.K. Courts Grant Mother Right to End Her 12-Year-Old Disabled Daughter’s Life|Elizabeth Picciuto|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Unfortunately, his disability—he is wheelchair-bound—was also in her crosshairs.
The Strangest, Cheesiest, Most Brazenly False Political Ads of 2014|Jack Holmes, The Daily Beast Video|November 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It comes back to this idea that autism or disability is just around the corner but never in the room.
Yes, ‘Aspergery’ Is a Slur and It's Time to Stop Using It|Emily Shire|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Pathways offers employment services no matter the intensiveness of the disability (they have a lottery system).
Hiring People With Disabilities Isn’t Just the Right Thing to Do—It’s Good for Business|Elizabeth Picciuto|October 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
(a) Give your opinion as to the causation of the disability.
The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt|James W. Barrett
No case has been presented to me in which the evidence afforded of a continuance of disability seems so inconclusive.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents|Grover Cleveland
His wound is not such as to cause his disability to become aggravated by time.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents|Grover Cleveland
But perhaps the disability is not so important as it seems at first sight.
Adventures in Criticism|Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
In (p. 322) the operations now under discussion, this disability was felt very severely.
1914|John French, Viscount of Ypres
British Dictionary definitions for disability
disability
/ (ˌdɪsəˈbɪlɪtɪ) /
nounplural-ties
the condition of being unable to perform a task or function because of a physical or mental impairment
something that disables; handicap
lack of necessary intelligence, strength, etc
an incapacity in the eyes of the law to enter into certain transactions
usage for disability
Many deaf and hard of hearing people object to the use of the phrase hearing disability