disamenity

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noun

A disadvantage or drawback, especially of a location

“The noise and dust from the steel works created substantial disamenity for the nearby retirement home.”

OriginEnglish amenity ← Middle English dis- ← Latin dis- →
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Meanings

noundisamenity (countable and uncountable, plural disamenities)

plural disamenities

  1. countableuncountableA disadvantage or drawback, especially of a location

    The noise and dust from the steel works created substantial disamenity for the nearby retirement home.

    1 more example

    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

Origin

  1. Latindis-
  2. Old Frenchdes-
  3. Latindis-
  4. Middle Englishdis-
  5. Englishdis-
  6. Englishamenity
  7. Englishdisamenity

From dis- + amenity.

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APA

disamenity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disamenity

MLA

“disamenity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disamenity. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disamenity,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disamenity.

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