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Meanings of disutility in inglês

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Lack of utility; quality of being useless; state or condition of being useless.

      бесполезность
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      Examples for "uselessness"
      Examples for "uselessness"
      1
      Gibson had a sudden sense of the uselessness of his fire power.
      Ancient shores
      2
      We were right about the uselessness of our going to the hospital.
      Bones Are Forever
      3
      But he realised the uselessness of it all, and abandoned the impulse.
      The Man in the Twilight
      4
      Seeing the uselessness of their efforts the Dahomans gradually slackened their fire.
      By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
      5
      And slowly the uselessness, the hopelessness of his being there overcame her.
      The Glimpses of the Moon
      1
      I am convinced of the inutility of the prolongation of this war.
      The Devil's Paw
      2
      The inutility of her best efforts, however, palsied the poor old gentlewoman.
      The House of the Seven Gables
      3
      Lumbermen, foes to idleness and inutility, swarm again about their winter's trophies.
      The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 / A Magazi...
      4
      The impolicy or inutility of sumptuary laws was not in this age acknowledged.
      Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
      5
      She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering.
      The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
      Usage of disutility in inglês
      1
      War-like emotions, he points out, may have been useful in an earlier civilization, but are now a total disutility.
      Human Traits and their Social Significance
      2
      Conclusions: This literature review highlights that at present utility scores (or disutility penalties) exist for relatively few health states in DKD.
      Pubmed
      3
      Either they are not injurious enough to be eliminated by natural selection; or they are correlated with other organs, whose utility outweighs their disutility.
      Logic: Deductive and Inductive
      4
      Utilities for each health state were determined, and disutilities were applied for complications and toxicities of treatment.
      Pubmed
      5
      But an hereditary bent of human nature is not to be put out of the way with an argument showing that it has its disutilities.
      An Inquiry into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetu...
      Frequent collocations
      Translations for disutility
      espanhol
      inutilidad
      Disutility through the time