DISABILITY meaning: Impairment affecting physical or mental function

We found 50 dictionaries that define the word disability:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

disability: Merriam-Webster
disability: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
disability: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
disability: Collins English Dictionary
disability: Vocabulary.com
Disability, disability: Wordnik
disability: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
disability: Wiktionary
disability: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
disability: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
disability: Infoplease Dictionary
disability: Dictionary.com
disability: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Disability: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Disability: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
disability: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
disability: Rhymezone
disability: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
disability: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
disability: FreeDictionary.org
disability: Mnemonic Dictionary
disability: TheFreeDictionary.com
disability: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (12 matching dictionaries)

disability: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
disability: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
disability: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
disability: Legal dictionary
disability: Financial dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

disability: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)

disability: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
Disability: Merck Manuals
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
disability: Medical dictionary
Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
Disability: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

Disability: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (countable, medical model of disability) A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
▸ noun:  (countable, social model of disability) 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.
▸ noun:  (countable, obsolete) Inability.
▸ noun:  (countable, law) Lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state.

Opposite:

ability, capability, competence, strength, proficiency

Types:

deaf, blind, paralyzed, dumb, mute, more...

Phrases:

learning disability, Disability insurance, Physical disability, disability benefits, Reading disability, more...

Adjectives:

physical, permanent, severe, total, intellectual, functional, mental, temporary, specific, partial, developmental

Colors:

blue, yellow, red, green, purple, more...

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