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Webster 1913 Edition


Usefulness

Use′ful-ness

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Noun.
The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage.
Addison.
Syn. – Utility; value; profit. See
Utility
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Webster 1828 Edition


Usefulness

U'SEFULNESS

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Noun.
Conduciveness to some end, properly to some valuable end; as the usefulness of canal navigation; the usefulness of machinery in manufactures.

Definition 2024


usefulness

usefulness

English

Noun

usefulness (countable and uncountable, plural usefulnesses)

  1. the quality of being useful, to which extent something is useful
    The usefulness of his latest reorganisation has been disputed.

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