inconvenience

Definition

The quality of being inconvenient.

Etymology

From Middle English inconvenience, from Old French inconvenience (“misfortune, calamity, impropriety”) (compare French inconvenance (“impropriety”) and inconvénient (“inconvenience”)), from Late Latin inconvenientia (“inconsistency, incongruity”).

Example Sentences

• "They plead against the inconvenience, not the unlawfulness, […] of ceremonies in burial."
• "[Man] is liable to a great many inconveniences."
• "The inconveniences that must be endured before the modernisation plan can come into action may be seen at Coventry, where since August the station has been in the throes of rebuilding."