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USELESSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of having no practical use
Synonyms:
inutility; unusefulness; uselessness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("uselessness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uselessness"):
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)
Antonym:
usefulness (the quality of being of practical use)
Derivation:
useless (having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully)
