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disability
English
Etymology
Circa 1570 disable +? -ity.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?s??b?l?ti/
Noun
disability (usually uncountable, plural disabilities)
- State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- 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.
- Synonym: handicap
- 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
Usage notes
- Disability and inability: Inability is an inherent want of power to perform the thing in question; disability arises from some deprivation or loss of the needed competency. One who becomes deranged is under a disability of holding his estate; and one who is made a judge, of deciding in his own case. A man may decline an office on account of his inability to discharge its duties; he may refuse to accept a trust or employment on account of some disability prevents him from entering into such engagements.
Synonyms
- disqualification
- impotence
- inability
- incapacity
- incompetency
- incompetence
- weakness
Antonyms
- ability
- capacity
- competence
- competency
- potence
- potential
- qualification
- strength
Related terms
- disable
- disabled
- disablism
Translations
disability From the web:
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- what disability does forrest gump have
- what disability does kiera allen have
- what disability did beethoven have
- what disability does radio have
- what disability does walter jr have
- what disability do i have quiz
- what disability does amanda gorman have
inequality
English
Alternative forms
- inæquality (archaic, rare)
Etymology
From Old French inequalité, from Medieval Latin inaequalitas, from inaequalis (“unequal”), from in- (“not”) + aequalis (“equal”).
Morphologically inequal +? -ity
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?n?kw?l'?t?, IPA(key): /??n??kw?l?ti/
Noun
inequality (countable and uncountable, plural inequalities)
- An unfair, not equal, state.
- The inequality in living standards led to a civil war as the have nots rebelled.
- (mathematics) A statement that of two quantities one is specifically less than (or greater than) another. Symbol: or or or or , as appropriate.
- The inequality is less than , together with that , allows us to deduce the inequality .
Synonyms
- (statement in mathematics): inequation
Hyponyms
- Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
- triangle inequality
Translations
See also
- ?
inequality From the web:
- what inequality is at least
- what inequality is at most
- what inequality is represented by this graph
- what inequality is shown in the graph
- what inequality sign is minimum
- what inequality sign is maximum
- what inequality is minimum
- what inequality is true for x=20
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