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

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incommodity incommodities

In so far, however, as Hawthorne suffered the penalties of celebrity at the hands of intrusive fellow-citizens, he was soon to escape from this honourable incommodity.

From Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) by Henry James

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

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

At this particular time, by reason of the incommodity of the house, the rite was performed at the door of the domicile.

From History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance by Peter Charles Remondino

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

Strange to say, my incommodities belong equally to my companion, though the burden is nowise alleviated by his participation.

From Monsieur du Miroir (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I liked the very incommodities of the place; I am not sure that I did not find a certain mystic salubrity in the bad ventilation.

From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various

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

But in a week or so such little incommodities would become natural again.

From The Emancipated by George Gissing