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disamenity

disamenity noun: a disadvantage or drawback, especially of a location.

Noun

disamenity (countable and uncountable, plural disamenities)

  1. A disadvantage or drawback, especially of a location
    • The noise and dust from the steel works created substantial disamenity for the nearby retirement home.
    • Nordhaus and Tobin (1972) introduced a “Measure of Economic Welfare” that combines consumption and leisure, values household work, and deducts urban disamenities for the United States over time.2016, Charles I. Jones, Peter J. Klenow, “Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time”, in American Economic Review, volume 106, number 9, →DOI, page 2428 of 2426--2457

Forms of disamenity

pluraldisamenities

Origin of disamenity

From dis- + amenity.

Questions about disamenity

What does disamenity mean?
Disamenity means a disadvantage or drawback, especially of a location.
What part of speech is disamenity?
Disamenity is a noun.
What is the plural of disamenity?
The plural of disamenity is disamenities.

Words near disamenity in the dictionary

  1. disambiguatory
  2. disambiguity
  3. disambulatories
  4. disambulatory
  5. disamenities
  6. disamenity
  7. Disamis
  8. disanalogies
  9. disanalogous
  10. disanalogously
  11. disanalogy

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