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PROFITABLENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of affording gain or benefit or profit
Synonyms:
gainfulness; lucrativeness; profitability; profitableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome
Synonyms:
advantageousness; favorableness; favourableness; positiveness; positivity; profitableness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
