disamenity

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ amenity.

Noun

disamenity (countable and uncountable, plural disamenities)

  1. A disadvantage or drawback, especially of a location
    The noise and dust from the steel works created substantial disamenity for the nearby retirement home.
    • 2016, Charles I. Jones, Peter J. Klenow, “Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time”, in American Economic Review, volume 106, number 9, →DOI, page 2428 of 2426--2457:
      Nordhaus and Tobin (1972) introduced a “Measure of Economic Welfare” that combines consumption and leisure, values household work, and deducts urban disamenities for the United States over time.
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