misfeature

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ feature.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsˈfiː.tjə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmɪsˈfiː.t͡ʃɚ/

Noun

misfeature (plural misfeatures)

1. An undesirable or incorrect feature.
   • 1818, John Keats, The Human Seasons:

     He hath his Winter too of pale Misfeature, / Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

   • 2003, John Ray, Maximum Mac OS X Security:

     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 […]

   • 2014, Benjamin J. Evans, David Flanagan, Java in a Nutshell, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 149:

     Most recent research on modern open source codebases indicate that array covariance is extremely rarely used and is almost certainly a language misfeature.