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disutility
[ dis-yoo-til-i-tee ]
noun
- the quality of causing inconvenience, harm, distress, etc.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of disutility1
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Example Sentences
When more people use a given amount of consumers' wealth, values, measured in ultimate units of utility or disutility, rise.
The answer is determined by the balance of utility and disutility.
On the contrary, with the bringing in of disutility of production, we have the doctrine of the earlier English School revived.
The "total effective utility" of the producer's product equals the "total effective disutility" of his pains of acquisition.
The explanation of superstitions must hold of all false beliefs, whatever their utility or disutility.
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