incommodity

American  

[in-kuh-mod-i-tee] / ˌɪn kəˈmɒd ɪ ti /

noun

• incommodities
  plural

1. disadvantage; inconvenience.

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incommodity British  

/ ˌɪnkəˈmɒdɪtɪ /

noun

1. a less common word for inconvenience

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• incommodities
  plural

Etymology

Origin of incommodity

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Latin word incommoditās. See incommode, -ity

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

incommodity incommodities

And had I not found incommodity there, I had not forsaken it at all; but finding it altogether unsuitable to me, and very unprofitable for me, I forsook it for this way. 

From Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte

We will, I say, therefore begin by considering what manner of pain or incommodity we should reckon imprisonment to be of itself and of its own nature alone.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens

Writing from London, on his arrival, Johnson said, 'I came home last night, without any incommodity, danger, or weariness, and am ready to begin a new journey.

From James Boswell Famous Scots Series by W. Keith (William Keith) Leask

When an wholesome law is propounded, he crosseth it either by open or close opposition, not for any incommodity or inexpedience, but because it proceeded from any mouth besides his own.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Howbeit, I purpose now to consider first imprisonment as imprisonment alone, without any other incommodity besides.

From Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens by Monica Stevens

Private M'Splae is the possessor, we will say, of a pair of flat feet, or arched insteps, or other military incommodities, and his regulation boots do not fit him.

From The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay

Pigs, Spanish dollars, and Norway rats, are not the only commodities and incommodities which have performed the circumnavigation, and are to be found wherever European ships have touched. 

From Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Henry Morley

But yet they shuld liue more pleasauntly, if certein incommodities were taken from them, and had suche pastymes as eyther they dispise orels can not get nor attaine vnto.

From A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure by Desiderius Erasmus

No man lives too long who lives to do with spirit and suffer with resignation what Providence pleases to command or inflict; but, indeed, they are sharp incommodities which beset old age.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

But what incommodities and troubles chaunced vnto me in these vyages, as hunger, thirst, colde, heate, warres, captiuitie, terrours, and dyuers other suche daungers, I will declare by the way in theyr due places.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr