Meanings
plural disutilities
- countableuncountableuselessness, a lack of utility
1 more example
1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface Up to a certain point doctors, like carpenters and masons, must earn their living by doing the work that the public wants from them; and as it is not in the nature of things possible that such public want should be based on unmixed disutility, it may be admitted that doctors have their uses, real as well as imaginary.
- countableuncountableeconomicsnegative utility
- countableuncountablehuman sciencesillbeing
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Latindis-
- Old Frenchdes-
- Latindis-
- Middle Englishdis-
- Englishdis-
- Englishutility
- Englishdisutility
Cite this entry
disutility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disutility
“disutility.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disutility. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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