disqualification

disqualification
    n 1: unfitness that bars you from participation
    2: the act of preventing someone from participating by finding
       them unqualified
    

Disqualification \Dis*qual`i*fi*ca"tion\, n.
   1. The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified;
      want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the
      disqualification of men for holding certain offices.
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   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.
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            I must still retain the consciousness of those
            disqualifications which you have been pleased to
            overlook.                             --Sir J.
                                                  Shore.
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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