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disutility|dɪsjuːˈtɪlɪtɪ|
[dis- 9.]
The opposite of utility; injuriousness, harmfulness.
1879Jevons Pol. Econ. iii. (1888) 58 For the abstract notion, the opposite or negative of utility, we may invent the term ‘disutility’, which will mean something different from inutility, or the absence of utility. It is obvious that utility passes through inutility before changing into disutility, these notions being related as +, 0 and -. 1886Academy 22 May 355/3 The fatigues of the evening lecture painfully illustrated the Jevonian theory of the ‘final disutility’ of labour. |