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disconvenience

disconvenience noun: incongruity; unsuitableness.

Noun

disconvenience (plural disconveniences)

  1. (obsolete) Incongruity; unsuitableness.
    • Carta Articulorum. [...] The convenience or disconvenience which motion hath with heat and tenuity, and how these three meet, sever, and vary.1608 July, Francis Bacon, “Filum Labyrinthi; sive Inquisitio Legitima de Motu”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume III...

Forms of disconvenience

pluraldisconveniences

Origin of disconvenience

From dis- + convenience.

Questions about disconvenience

What does disconvenience mean?
Disconvenience means incongruity; unsuitableness.
What part of speech is disconvenience?
Disconvenience is a noun.
What is the plural of disconvenience?
The plural of disconvenience is disconveniences.

Words near disconvenience in the dictionary

  1. discontinuors
  2. discontinuous
  3. discontinuously
  4. discontinuousness
  5. discontinuum
  6. disconvenience
  7. disconveniences
  8. disconvenient
  9. discoordinate
  10. discoordinated
  11. discoordinating

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