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empairment

empairment is the obsolete form of impairment.

Meaning of impairment

Noun

impairment (countable and uncountable, plural impairments)

  1. The result of being impaired.
  2. A deterioration or weakening.
    • We determined that the car driver’s transportation of multiple teen passengers, limited driving experience, and likely impairment from effects of cannabis at the time of the crash adversely affected her judgment of the danger of entering the intersection in front of the approaching combination...2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022
  3. (medical model of disability) A disability or handicap.
    • visual impairment
  4. (social model of disability) A loss or absence of baseline human functioning that may lead to a disability.
  5. An inefficient part or factor.
  6. A downward revaluation, a write-down.

Origin of empairment

From empair + -ment.

Questions about empairment

What is empairment the obsolete form of?
Empairment is the obsolete form of impairment.

Words near empairment in the dictionary

  1. empair
  2. empaire
  3. empaired
  4. empaires
  5. empairing
  6. empairment
  7. empairs
  8. empaistic
  9. empale
  10. empaled
  11. empalement

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Adapted from Wiktionary: empairment (page history and authors); impairment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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