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handicapped person
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  handicapped person - a person who has some condition that markedly restricts their ability to function physically or mentally or sociallyindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"amnesiac, amnesic - a person suffering from amnesiaaphasic - someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand languagehemiplegic - a person who has hemiplegia (is paralyzed on one side of the body)paralytic - a person suffering from paralysisparaplegic - a person who has paraplegia (is paralyzed from the waist down)quadriplegic - a person who is paralyzed in both arms and both legs |
TranslationsdeficienteminusválidoandicappatodisabileminoratoEncyclopediaSeehandicappedhandicap principle
handicap principle A hypothesis that the extravagance of an animal’s mating displays proves individual strength, because animals with handicaps do not have the strength for mating dominance.
Example
Huge antlers for deer stags.
The cost or handicap is a virtual guarantee of the honesty of the display; if there were no cost to the display—e.g., proof of the stag’s superiority by fighting other males—there would be rampant cheating, and observers (other stags) would learn to ignore the “false” displays. Because antlers are costly, it would not be worthwhile for a weaker stag to produce large antlers and try to “bluff” his way into mating superiority.Handicapped Person
Handicapped PersonA disabled person. The term is sometimes considered derogatory. In the United States, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 used the word "handicap" to refer to a disability, while the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 used the word "disability" on the assumption it had the same definition as "handicap." Courts interpreted this differently and applied a higher standard to the definition of "disability." Congress changed this with the passage of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008, which declared the two words to have the same meaning.handicapped person
Words related to handicapped personnoun a person who has some condition that markedly restricts their ability to function physically or mentally or sociallyRelated Words- individual
- mortal
- person
- somebody
- someone
- soul
- amnesiac
- amnesic
- aphasic
- hemiplegic
- paralytic
- paraplegic
- quadriplegic
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