discommodity

discommodity
/dis'keuh mod"i tee/, n., pl. discommodities. Archaic.
1. inconvenience; disadvantageousness.
2. a source of inconvenience or trouble; disadvantage.
[1505-15; DIS-1 + COMMODITY]

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