disability

disability: noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ chronic, profound, serious, severe, significant

▪ mild (esp. AmE)

▪ Many children with mild disabilities are integrated in general education.

▪ lifelong, long-term, permanent

▪ 8 000 babies a year develop long-term disabilities resulting from this infection.

▪ cognitive, developmental, emotional (AmE), intellectual, mental, physical, psychiatric (esp. AmE), psychological (esp. AmE)

▪ children who have severe developmental disabilities

▪ hearing, visual (both esp. AmE)

▪ lectures for students with hearing disabilities

▪ learning, reading (AmE)

▪ Up to 20% have a learning disability.

▪ hidden

▪ those with a visible or a hidden disability

VERB + DISABILITY

▪ experience, have, suffer, suffer from

▪ patients who have suffered disability after stroke

▪ cause

▪ No one knows what causes learning disabilities.

▪ cope with, live with

▪ people who are learning to live with disability

▪ diagnose, identify

▪ an attempt to identify learning disability among children

▪ overcome

▪ She has overcome her disability to become an artist.

▪ prevent

▪ The drug's utility in preventing long-term disability is unproven.

DISABILITY + NOUN

▪ movement, organization

▪ discrimination

▪ rights

▪ an article on disability rights

▪ activist (esp. AmE)

▪ She was a vocal disability activist.

▪ issues

▪ Staff members have been educated in disability issues.

▪ allowance, benefit, check (AmE), claim (esp. AmE), compensation (esp. AmE), pay (AmE), payment, pension

▪ She saved the money from her monthly disability payments.

▪ coverage (AmE), insurance (esp. AmE)

▪ status (esp. AmE)

▪ the criteria required for disability status

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Synonyms:

Disqualification / Inability, incapacity, incompetence, impotence, incapability

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disability — dis a*bil i*ty, n.; pl. {Disabilities}. 1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like. [1913 Webster] Grossest faults, or disabilities to… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
disability — 1570s, want of ability; see DISABLE (Cf. disable) + ITY (Cf. ity). Related: Disabilities … Etymology dictionary
disability — *inability … New Dictionary of Synonyms
disability — [n] disadvantage, restriction affliction, ailment, defect, detriment, disqualification, drawback, impairment, inability, incapacity, incompetency, inexperience, infirmity, injury, invalidity, lack, unfitness, weakness; concepts 309,316,410 Ant.… … New thesaurus
disability — ► NOUN (pl. disabilities) 1) a physical or mental condition that limits a person s movements, senses, or activities. 2) a disadvantage or handicap … English terms dictionary
disability — [dis΄ə bil′ə tē, dis′ə bil′ə tē] n. pl. disabilities 1. a disabled condition 2. that which disables, as an illness, injury, or physical handicap 3. a legal disqualification or incapacity 4. something that restricts; limitation; disadvantage … English World dictionary
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disability — The want of legal capability to perform an act. Term is generally used to indicate an incapacity for the full enjoyment of ordinary legal rights; thus, persons under age, insane persons, and convicts are said to be under legal disability.… … Black's law dictionary
disability — The want of legal capability to perform an act. Term is generally used to indicate an incapacity for the full enjoyment of ordinary legal rights; thus, persons under age, insane persons, and convicts are said to be under legal disability.… … Black's law dictionary

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