incommodity

noun

in·​com·​mod·​i·​ty ˌin-kə-ˈmä-də-tē 

: a source of inconvenience : disadvantage

the incommodities of a single life

—Samuel Johnson

Synonyms

• debit
• disadvantage
• disbenefit
• downside
• drawback
• handicap
• liability
• minus
• negative
• strike

Examples of incommodity in a Sentence

cited reduced privacy as one of the incommodities of apartment living

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above