discommodity

[dis-kuh-mod-i-tee]

noun

Archaic.

plural

discommodities 

1. inconvenience; disadvantageousness.

2. a source of inconvenience or trouble; disadvantage.

discommodity

/ ˌdɪskəˈmɒdɪtɪ /

noun

1. economics a commodity without utility

2. archaic,  the state or a source of inconvenience

Word History and Origins

Origin of discommodity¹

First recorded in 1505–15; dis- ¹ + commodity

Example Sentences

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

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Even likewise can I say of fair shooting, it hath not this discommodity with it nor that discommodity, and at last a man may so shift all the discommodities from shooting that there shall be left nothing behind but fair shooting.

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You go about, in rain or fine at all hours without discommodity.

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