A benefit or favorable condition that opposes or cancels out another advantage.
Counter- + advantage. This compound emerged in strategic and competitive contexts to describe how one gain could be negated by a competing benefit or disadvantage in another area.
Being tall helps in basketball, but here's the counteradvantage: tall people can't move as fast—every advantage in life seems to come with a built-in tradeoff.
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