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discommodity

[dis-kuh-mod-i-tee]
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noun, plural dis·com·mod·i·ties. Archaic.
  1. inconvenience; disadvantageousness.
  2. a source of inconvenience or trouble; disadvantage.

Origin of discommodity

First recorded in 1505–15; dis-1 + commodity
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Related Words for discommodity

bar, burden, defect, deficiency, deprivation, detriment, disability, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hamper, handicap, hardship, hindrance, impediment, imperfection, imposition, inadequacy, inconvenience

Examples from the Web for discommodity

Historical Examples of discommodity

  • The commodities of free extemporate prayers, and the discommodity of prescribed or set forms, are these following.

    A Christian Directory

    Baxter Richard

  • To preuent which discommodity, one of the best remedies is the sufficient and fit distance of trees.

British Dictionary definitions for discommodity

discommodity

noun plural -ties
  1. economics a commodity without utility
  2. archaic the state or a source of inconvenience
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