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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disqualification \Dis*qual'i*fi*ca"tion\, noun
1. The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.
2. That which disqualifies; that which incapacitates or makes unfit; as, conviction of crime is a disqualification of a person for office; sickness is a disqualification for labor.
I must still retain the consciousness of those disqualifications which you have been pleased to overlook. --Sir J. Shore.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disqualification
noun
1: unfitness that bars you from participation
2: the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "disqualification": ad lib, disability, disablement, extemporaneousness, imbecility, improvisation, inability, inadequacy, incapability, incapacitation, incapacity, incompetence, incompetency, inefficiency, ineptitude, infancy, inferiority, insufficiency, lack of preparation, legal incapacity, minority, nonpreparation, nonpreparedness, planlessness, unfitness, unfittedness, unpreparedness, unqualification, unqualifiedness, unreadiness, unsuitability, unsuitableness, unsuitedness, vulnerability, wardship
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