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inconvenience (n.)

c. 1400, "harm, damage; danger; misfortune, affliction," from Old French inconvenience "misfortune, calamity; impropriety" (Modern French inconvenance), from Late Latin inconvenientia "lack of consistency, incongruity" (in Medieval Latin "misfortune, affliction"), abstract noun from inconvenientem (see inconvenient). Sense of "impropriety, unfitness; an improper act or utterance" in English is from early 15c. Meaning "quality of being inconvenient" is from 1650s.

inconvenience (v.)

1650s, from inconvenience (n.). Related: Inconvenienced; inconveniencing.

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Definitions of inconvenience from WordNet
1
inconvenience (n.)
an inconvenient discomfort;
Synonyms: incommodiousness
inconvenience (n.)
a difficulty that causes anxiety;
Synonyms: troublesomeness / worriment
inconvenience (n.)
the quality of not being useful or convenient;
2
inconvenience (v.)
to cause inconvenience or discomfort to;
Synonyms: trouble / put out / disoblige / discommode / incommode / bother
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