disutility

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US/ˌdɪsjuːˈtɪlɪti/

noun

uselessness, a lack of utility

UncommonScrabble 14

Meanings

noundisutility (countable and uncountable, plural disutilities)

plural disutilities

  1. 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.

  2. countableuncountableeconomicsnegative utility
  3. countableuncountablehuman sciencesillbeing

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Origin

  1. Latindis-
  2. Old Frenchdes-
  3. Latindis-
  4. Middle Englishdis-
  5. Englishdis-
  6. Englishutility
  7. Englishdisutility

From dis- + utility.

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APA

disutility. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disutility

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disutility,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disutility.

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