disconvenience

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noun

Incongruity; unsuitableness.

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Meanings

noundisconvenience (plural disconveniences)

plural disconveniences

  1. obsoleteIncongruity; 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, London: Longman and Co.; […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 627

Origin

From dis- + convenience.

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Translations

Spanish disconveniencia, desconveniencia
  • disconvenienciainconvenience
  • desconvenienciainconvenience
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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