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Inability vs. Disability

Inability and Disability Definitions

Inability

Lack of ability or means.

Disability

A physical or mental condition that significantly limits a person's motor, sensory, or cognitive abilities.

Inability

Lack of the ability to do something; incapability.

Disability

The state of having such a condition
Discrimination based on disability.

Inability

Lack of the option to do something; powerlessness.

Disability

A program that provides financial support to people with such conditions
Has been on disability for a month.
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Inability

The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; lack of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity.
It is not from an inability to discover what they ought to do, that men err in practice.

Disability

The economic assistance provided by such a program
Has been getting disability since the accident.

Inability

Lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something

Disability

(Law) Lack of legal capacity to perform some act, such as to enter into a contract, because of infancy or lack of soundness of mind.

Inability

Lacking the power to perform

Disability

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

A mental condition causing a difficulty with an intellectual task.
Dyscalculia is math disability.

Disability

(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.

Disability

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

Disability

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?

Disability

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.
Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability.

Disability

Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture.
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Disability

The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness;
Reading disability
Hearing impairment

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