Definizione monolingua

disability

disability (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.

   Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. - John Milton.

   Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. - George Bancroft.

2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.

   The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture. - Benjamin Vaughan Abbott.

3. The combination of a physical or intellectual impairment of an individual and the social attitudes and environment that prevents a person from living a full, normal life or from performing his/her normal job.

   He has a mental disability.

4. (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?

Definizione dizionario disability

disabilità

handicap

incapacità

invalidità

invalidità, incapacità

malattia

Altri significati:

lack of ability relative to a personal or group standard or spectrum

A physical or mental handicap, that prevents a person from living a full, normal life or from holding a gainful job.

State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.

The combination of a physical or intellectual impairment of an individual and the social attitudes and environment that prevents a person from living a full, normal life or from performing his/her normal job.

physical or intellectual impairment

(uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state

Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.