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English
Etymology
From dysfunctional + -ity.
Noun
dysfunctionality (countable and uncountable, plural dysfunctionalities)
- (uncountable) The condition of being dysfunctional.
- (countable) A dysfunction.
1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5:What is worse is how the custom-designed treatment programs for our community that are springing up make no provision for those of us doubly, triply or even quadruply oppressed This neglect is a symptom of the dysfunctionality afflicting our community: the degree to which we've permitted too many assimilationists to define the standards of identity for us all.
Translations
condition of being dysfunctional