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discommodity

discommodity noun: disadvantage; inconvenience.

Noun

discommodity (countable and uncountable, plural discommodities)

  1. (archaic) Disadvantage; inconvenience.
    • The Diſcommodities of Vſury are: Firſt, that it makes fevver Merchants. For vvere it not, for this Lazie Trade of Vſury, Money vvould not lie ſtill, but vvould, in great Part, be Imployed vpon Merchandizing; VVhich is the Vena Porta of VVealth in a State.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Usurie. XLI.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 240
    • Too neare the Sea, too remote, Hauing the Commoditie of Nauigable Riuers, or the diſcommoditie of their Ouerflovving; […]1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building. XLV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 258

Forms of discommodity

pluraldiscommodities

Origin of discommodity

From dis- + commodity.

Questions about discommodity

What does discommodity mean?
Discommodity means disadvantage; inconvenience.
What part of speech is discommodity?
Discommodity is a noun.
What is the plural of discommodity?
The plural of discommodity is discommodities.

Words near discommodity in the dictionary

  1. discommoding
  2. discommodious
  3. discommodiously
  4. discommodiousness
  5. discommodities
  6. discommodity
  7. discommon
  8. discommoned
  9. discommoning
  10. discommons
  11. discommonsed

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