Diminishing marginal utility

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Diminishing marginal utility is the common pattern that each marginal unit of a good consumed provides less of an addition to utility than the previous unit.

Definition

According to Principles of Economics by Timothy Taylor (3rd edition),

Diminishing marginal utility. The common pattern that each marginal unit of a good consumed provides less of an addition to utility than the previous unit.
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