Disincentive

The "disincentivizing" thing got me thinking about how legal writers, beyond using unnecessarily big words, also like to add suffixes to make words into different parts of speech. Like, 'incentive' is a noun, so is 'disincentive', but disincentivize is a verb. I can easily imagine a legal writer musing about the problem of disincentivication. Now it's a noun again. Magic.

A typical example is 'disposition,' which in real life means one's general mood. That pit bull has a nasty disposition. But in law it means the final outcome of a case. What was the disposition? The judge granted the motion to dismiss, case over.

Savvy readers might notice that the root verb, dispose, already has a noun that regular Americans would use: disposal. But that sounds too much like trash. Ew.