Usually means: Impairment affecting physical or mental function.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word disability:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. disability: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. disability: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disability: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disability: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disability: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disability, disability: Wordnik
  7. disability: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disability: Wiktionary
  9. disability: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disability: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disability: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. disability: Dictionary.com
  13. disability: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Disability: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Disability: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. disability: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. disability: Rhymezone
  18. disability: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. disability: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. disability: Free Dictionary
  21. disability: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. disability: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. disability: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. disability: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. disability: Legal dictionary
  10. disability: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disability: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Disability: Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  6. disability: Medical dictionary
  7. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Disability: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Disability: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See disabilities as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, medical model of disability) A condition characterised by a significant limitation in a person's physical or intellectual powers or ability.
noun:  (uncountable) The state of having such a condition; the state of being disabled.
noun:  (countable, social model of disability) 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.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) Inability.
noun:  (countable, law) Lack of legal qualification to do something; legal incapacity or incompetency.
noun:  (uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state.

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