disamenityn.
/ˌdɪsəˈmiːnᵻti/, /ˌdɪsəˈmɛnᵻti/, U.S. /ˌdɪsəˈmɛnədi/ 1. A disadvantageous, detrimental, or undesirable feature; a disadvantage, a drawback. Frequently in plural.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > [noun] > a disadvantage
damage1398
disadvantagec1425
afterdeal1481
disprofit?1555
where the shoe pinches?a1580
drawbacka1640
negative1702
take-off1797
letdown1840
disamenity1864
handicap1872
back-draw1883
disbenefit1968
1864 Amer. Homœopathic Rev. Apr. 437 He had not..a license to practice as a physician, a fact which might have subjected him to many impediments and disamenities.
1924 Glasgow Herald 29 Nov. 4 The disamenities attendant on the growth of civilisation.
1938 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1937 383 The increased social expenditure and disamenities of social life (such as road congestion, housing shortage, loss of open spaces) in expanding areas.
1963 Financial Times 23 Aug. 18/13 The crowded disamenities..of Glasgow tenement life.
2009 R. D. Bullard & B. Wright Race, Place, & Environmental Justice 3 Some get more than their fair share of the benefits or residential amenities while others receive more than their fair share of the costs or disamenities.
2. As a mass noun. Lack of amenity, advantage, or agreeableness; inconvenience.Recorded earliest in disamenity-hardened.
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1959 Economist 26 Sept. 1012/2 The businessman..cannot count..on being able to do his recruiting entirely from the disamenity-hardened products of the blighted areas themselves.
1965 Listener 13 May 711/1 The political disamenity, dislocation, and social disturbance suffered both by the inhabitants and the immigrants.
1970 New Scientist 13 Aug. 342/2 Two other rapidly growing sources of disamenity..are air travel and tourism.
2012 Amer. Econ. Rev. 102 818 The disamenity of living in an area of Northern Ireland that is in conflict.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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