EGAVE

disability

About 10.63 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
    people with disabilities
  2. noun The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
  3. noun 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. noun An inability.
  5. noun A lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.
  6. noun A duty to refrain from altering a person's legal relations; correlative of an immunity.
  7. noun Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state.
    I had to go on disability after the accident.

Similar words

disablement impairment handicap handicapped incapacitation disabled impaired infirmity debility weakness

Often followed by

and insurance is in or benefits of to as

Word family

disabilities

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