Usually means: Decrease in satisfaction or happiness.
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  1. disutility: Merriam-Webster
  2. disutility: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disutility: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disutility: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disutility: Wordnik
  6. disutility: Wiktionary
  7. disutility: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. disutility: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. disutility: Dictionary.com
  10. disutility: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. disutility: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (disutility)

▸ noun:  uselessness, a lack of utility
▸ noun:  (microeconomics) negative utility
▸ noun:  (philosophy) illbeing

Similar:
inutility, worthlessness, futility, unvalue, unneededness, unneedfulness, unavailingness, unusage, valuelessness, vainness, more...

Opposite:
utility, usefulness, benefit, advantage

Types:
pain, suffering, cost, loss, trade-off, more...

Adjectives:
marginal, social, total, greater, expected, relative, net, commercial, less, positive, economic

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Similar:
inutility, worthlessness, futility, unvalue, unneededness, unneedfulness, unavailingness, unusage, valuelessness, vainness, more...

Opposite:
utility, usefulness, benefit, advantage

Types:
pain, suffering, cost, loss, trade-off, more...

Adjectives:
marginal, social, total, greater, expected, relative, net, commercial, less, positive, economic



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