PROFITABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profitableness mean? 

• PROFITABLENESS (noun)
  The noun PROFITABLENESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome

2. the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit

  Familiarity information: PROFITABLENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROFITABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

advantageousness; favorableness; favourableness; positiveness; positivity; profitableness

Hypernyms ("profitableness" is a kind of...):

advantage; vantage (the quality of having a superior or more favorable position)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "profitableness"):

auspiciousness; propitiousness (the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result)

Derivation:

profitable (yielding material gain or profit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of affording gain or benefit or profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

gainfulness; lucrativeness; profitability; profitableness

Hypernyms ("profitableness" is a kind of...):

gain; profit (the advantageous quality of being beneficial)

Antonym:

unprofitableness (the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit)

Derivation:

profitable (yielding material gain or profit)