disability

CEFRB1

/dɪsəˈbɪlɪti/

noun

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noun
A condition that limits a person's movement, senses, or activities.
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noun
Extra detail
A limitation in function (the things that a person can do or achieve) that is driven by any combination of their impairments (the medical facts about them) and the imperfect state of society's inaccessibility that sometimes fails to accommodate their needs.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
A lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.

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Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. The King himself intervened by a letter[…]Chatham yielded to such persuasion; though suffering from a universal tremor.
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 Co...
While physical and sensory disability is usually identified by asking a subject what he or she can or cannot do (with or without assistance), cognitive disability is assessed with a test such as a mental status questionnaire (MSQ).
1992, Joan C. Cornoni-Huntley et al., “Epidemiology of disability in the oldest old”, in The Oldest Old, page 278
Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.
1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC

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Circa 1570 disable + -ity.