Definition of disvalue in English:
disvalue
verb dɪsˈvaljuːdisˈvalyo͞o
[with object]Undervalue (something or someone)
I'm not going to disvalue the way they feel
Example sentencesExamples
- Illness is an explanatory concept that describes the human perception, experience, and interpretation of certain socially disvalued states.
- A less restrictive approach is that of critical-level utilitarianism, which disvalues only individuals whose utility level is below some fixed, low but positive threshold.
- It is unlikely that our finding reflects a reporting bias such as might occur when women are more reticent about admitting to disvalued behaviors.
- If we discover that attaining it has further, disvalued, consequences, we also prize it less.
noun dɪsˈvaljuːdisˈvalyo͞o
A negative value or worth.
a story in which exhibitionism is a disvalue
Example sentencesExamples
- Rather, expected good is calculated by multiplying the value or disvalue of possible outcomes by rational or justified probability estimates.
- They will act out their disvalue with the attendant social problems that ensue.
- It would be pedantic to claim instead that inequality has disvalue.
- Traditional formulations of double effect require that the value of promoting the good end outweigh the disvalue of the harmful side effect.
- Socrates means to emphasize that nothing outweighs in positive value the disvalue of doing unjust actions.
Derivatives
noundɪsvaljuˈeɪʃ(ə)n
Accompanying the disvaluation of self is the feeling of being unworthy to be in the presence of ‘the holy one’.
Example sentencesExamples
- And neither does the author gain insane, orgasmic pleasure in this latest fat blasting disvaluation.
- His underestimation of intellectual life and his disvaluation of culture, however, are not hallmarks of good tradition.
- For examples of disvaluation and air of suspicion all we need do is to study our losses at the Museum over the last years.