disutility

Noun

Meaning

uselessness, a lack of utility

(microeconomics) negative utility

(philosophy) illbeing

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In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right. Daniel H. Pink

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