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UNUSEFULNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unusefulness mean?
• UNUSEFULNESS (noun)
The noun UNUSEFULNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of having no practical use
Familiarity information: UNUSEFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of having no practical use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
inutility; unusefulness; uselessness
Hypernyms ("unusefulness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unusefulness"):
futility (uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result)
worthlessness (the quality of being without practical use)
impracticality (concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use)
impracticability; impracticableness (the quality of not being usable)
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