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Disadvantage vs Uneasiness - What's the difference?

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Disadvantage is a related term of uneasiness.


As nouns the difference between disadvantage and uneasiness

is that disadvantage is a weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con while uneasiness is the state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.

As a verb disadvantage

is to place at a disadvantage.

disadvantage

English

Alternative forms

* disadvauntage (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
    • The disadvantage to owning a food processor is that you have to store it somewhere.
  • A setback or handicap.
    • My height is a disadvantage for reaching high shelves.
  • * Burke
    • I was brought here under the disadvantage of being unknown by sight to any of you.
  • * Palfrey
    • Abandoned by their great patron, the faction henceforward acted at disadvantage .
  • Loss; detriment; hindrance.
  • * Bancroft
    • They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public.

    Synonyms

    * (an undesirable characteristic) afterdeal, con, drawback, downside * (a handicap) afterdeal, weakness

    Antonyms

    * advantage

    Verb

    (disadvantag)
  • To place at a disadvantage.
    • They fear it might disadvantage honest participants to allow automated entries.
  • * 2013 September 28, , " London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
    • For London to have its own exclusive immigration policy would exacerbate the sense that immigration benefits only certain groups and disadvantages the rest. It would entrench the gap between London and the rest of the nation. And it would widen the breach between the public and the elite that has helped fuel anti-immigrant hostility.

    Synonyms

    * tell against

    Derived terms

    * disadvantageous * disadvantageously * disadvantageousness

    uneasiness

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • The state of being uneasy, nervous or restless.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness , the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}
  • An anxious state of mind; anxiety.
  • * 1860 , (Charles Dickens), (Great Expectations)
    • Finding that the afternoon coach was gone, and finding that his uneasiness grew into positive alarm, as obstacles came in his way, he resolved to follow in a post-chaise.

    Synonyms

    * (being nervous) unease * (anxiety) see