disutility

Definitions

1. uselessness, a lack of utility
   countable, uncountable
2. negative utility
   countable, uncountable
3. illbeing
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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