What is another word for disqualifications?

Pronunciation: [dɪskwˌɒlɪfɪkˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

Disqualifications are incidents or actions that prevent someone or something from being able to participate in a certain activity or event. There are a variety of synonyms for this word, including ineligibility, exclusion, disentitlement, bar, prohibition, and incapacity. Ineligibility implies that someone does not meet the necessary qualifications to participate. Exclusion and disentitlement suggest that someone was deliberately kept out of the event or activity. Bar and prohibition are stricter versions of disqualification, implying that there is a legal or official restriction preventing participation. Incapacity puts the focus on a person's physical or mental inability to participate. Whatever term is used, it ultimately means that someone or something is not allowed to take part in a particular event or activity.

What are the hypernyms for Disqualifications?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Disqualifications

  • Great change can only be effected by unity. But "Union without knowledge is useless; Knowledge without union is powerless." Then what is the right knowledge? Owen said it consisted in knowing that people came into the world without any intention of doing it; and often with limited capacities, and with disadvantages of person, and with instinctive tendencies which impel them against their will, and which disqualifications they did not give themselves. ... Dislike dies in the heart of those who understand this, and the spirit of unity arises.
    George Holyoake

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