Disability vs Failure - What's the difference?
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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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Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
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(uncountable, informal) Regular payments received by a disabled person, usually from the state
State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
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Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function, breakdown.
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As nouns the difference between disability and failure
is that disability is state of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like while failure is state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.disability
Noun
(en-noun)- Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.
- Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability .
- The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture.
- I had to go on disability after the accident.
- Did you get your disability this month?
Usage notes
* Disability and inability: Inability is an inherent want of power to perform the thing in question; disability arises from some deprivation or loss of the needed competency. One who becomes deranged is under a disability of holding his estate; and one who is made a judge, of deciding in his own case. A man may decline an office on account of his inability to discharge its duties; he may refuse to accept a trust or employment on account of some disability prevents him from entering into such engagements.Synonyms
* disqualification * impotence * inability * incapacity * incompetency * incompetence * weaknessAntonyms
* ability * capacity * competence * competency * potence * potential * qualification * strengthfailure
English
(wikipedia failure)Noun
(en noun)Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, passage=For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.}}
François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election, passage=Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure . It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.}}
Our banks are out of control, passage=Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic […]. Until 2008 there was denial over what finance had become. When a series of bank failures made this impossible, there was widespread anger, leading to the public humiliation of symbolic figures.}}