misfeature

noun
/ˌmɪsˈfiː.tjə(ɹ)/UK/ˌmɪsˈfiː.t͡ʃɚ/US

Etymology

From mis- + feature.

  1. inherited from *dʰeh₁-
  2. derived from faciō — “do, make
  3. derived from factus
  4. derived from factūra
  5. derived from faiture
  6. derived from feture
  7. inherited from feture
  8. prefixed as misfeature — “mis + feature

Definitions

  1. An undesirable or incorrect feature.

    • He hath his Winter too of pale Misfeature, / Or else he would forego his mortal nature.
    • This may not appear to be a critical misfeature, and in fact I have on occasion come to rely upon this unintentional archive of data to recover the data[…]
    • Most recent research on modern open source codebases indicate that array covariance is extremely rarely used and is almost certainly a language misfeature.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misfeature. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA