Usefulness \Use"ful*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being useful; utility;
serviceableness; advantage. --Addison.
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Syn: Utility; value; profit. See Utility.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
usefulness
n : the quality of being of practical use [syn: utility] [ant:
inutility, inutility]
WordNet (r) 2.0
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "usefulness":
account, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, agreeableness,
applicability, appropriateness, auspiciousness, availability,
beneficialness, benefit, benevolence, benignity, class, cogency,
convenience, decency, desert, desirability, effectiveness,
efficacy, efficiency, excellence, expedience, expediency, fairness,
favorableness, feasibility, fineness, first-rateness, fitness,
fittingness, fruitfulness, functionality, gain, goodliness,
goodness, grace, healthiness, help, helpfulness, kindness, merit,
niceness, operability, opportuneness, percentage, pleasantness,
point, politicness, practicability, practical utility,
practicality, profit, profitability, profitableness, propriety,
prudence, purpose, purposefulness, quality, relevance,
rewardingness, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness, service,
serviceability, skillfulness, soundness, suitability, superiority,
timeliness, usability, use, utility, utilizability, validity,
value, virtue, virtuousness, wholeness, wisdom, worth,
worthwhileness
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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