disability

Circa 1570 disable +‎ -ity.

• IPA^(key): /dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/

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disability (usually uncountable, plural disabilities)

1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.[1]
   • 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:

     Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.

   • 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:

     Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability.

2. A mental condition causing a difficulty with an intellectual task.

   Dyscalculia is math disability.

3. (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.

   Synonym: handicap

4. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.[1]
5. (uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state

   I had to go on disability after the accident.

   Did you get your disability this month?

• disqualification
• impotence
• inability
• incapacity
• incompetency
• incompetence
• weakness

• ability
• capacity
• competence
• competency
• potence
• potential
• qualification
• strength

• disable
• disabled
• disablism