discommodity

noun

dis·​commodity

"+

1

archaic

a

: inconvenience, disadvantageousness

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

—Charles Lamb

b

: something that is inconvenient : disadvantage, trouble

discommodities visited upon a stiff-necked disobedient people

2

: a substance or action having no utility

—opposed to commodity

Word History

Etymology

dis- entry 1 + commodity

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