disability
IPA: dɪsʌbˈɪɫɪti
noun
- State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
- A mental condition causing a difficulty with an intellectual task.
- (disability theory) An inability imposed on a person by society's failure to accommodate their physical or mental differences from others, as opposed to impairment.
- Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
- (uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state
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Examples of "disability" in Sentences
- Benefits payments and long term disability is another.
- Not everybody who has a disability is able to keep doing everything through it.
- In a way, I'm changing people's perceptions of what a disability is and can be.
- But fighting for his disability is an additional aggravation, Dobler believes, he should not have to suffer.
- This rise in disability is likely to increase future nursing home populations by 10% to 25% over current projections, Lakdawalla says.
- I think we need to start using the term disability-phobic, to raise awareness about this, as in the descriptive and accurate term "homophobia"
- The only other comment that I'll make is that the term disability or inability is not defined in the 25th Amendment, nor is it defined in the original Constitution, either ...
- Erik Weihenmayer, the only blind person to have climbed Mount Everest, wrote the profile of Pistorius and said the runner challenges the notion that living with a disability is a disadvantage.
- Do you think your dislike of using the term disability, or the subject of disability itself as evidenced by the way you have consistently ignored the topic has to do with your fitness obsession, and the way you conflate a healthy, fit body with godliness?
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