Note 244 — Chapter XI · THE ULTIMATE RELATION OF COST TO VALUE
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The term “disutility” is almost universally used as equivalent to “discomfort,” that is, as being purely subjective. This makes it available as an opposite of satisfaction (or of utility according to the usage of those writers who use the latter as a subjective term) but the same usage debars its employment as the opposite of utility in the sense advocated in the present essay.