1. A physical, mental, or developmental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities
   "reading disability";
   - disablement, handicap [archaic], 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