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Noun: disability  ,dis-u'bi-li-tee
  1. The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness
    "reading disability";
    - disablement, handicap, impairment
     
  2. Legal incapacity or disadvantage
    "The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture"

Derived forms: disabilities

Type of: softness, unfitness

Encyclopedia: Disability, Handicap and Society