different between disutility vs inutility

English

Etymology

dis- +? utility

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?d?sju??t?l?ti/

Noun

disutility (countable and uncountable, plural disutilities)

1. uselessness, a lack of utility
   • 1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface

     Up to a certain point doctors, like carpenters and masons, must earn their living by doing the work that the public wants from them; and as it is not in the nature of things possible that such public want should be based on unmixed disutility, it may be admitted that doctors have their uses, real as well as imaginary.

2. (microeconomics) negative utility
3. (philosophy) illbeing

English

Etymology

in- +? utility, from Latin inutilitas.

Noun

inutility (usually uncountable, plural inutilities)

1. Uselessness.
   • 1841, A Slight Sketch of the Life of Whitlock Nicholl

     But I will hope better things for young Robert's sake; that he will learn something more important than that most useless of all inutilities, the forging of hexameters and pentameters […]

2. Unprofitableness.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:inutility

Antonyms

• utility

Related terms

• disutility

Translations

References

• inutility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.