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lucrativeness

lucrativeness

7.7
The quality of producing a lot of money
  • noun
  • /ˈluːkrətɪvnəs/
translation icon : lucratividad
  • Her business plan focuses on the lucrativeness of online sales and how to maximize revenue.

Examples

  • For it is not just that Schrader drew White into the drug trade by informing him of its lucrativeness and then taking him out on a drug raid.

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  • Investors are attracted to the lucrativeness of the technology sector, leading to significant profits.

  • The lucrativeness of the real estate market has encouraged many people to consider property investment.

Synonyms

profitability
vslucrativeness
35 3.9

The amount of money a business keeps after paying its costs

talks about the basic quality of producing profit rather than its measured amount
profitableness
vslucrativeness
5.1

How much a business, project, or idea makes money and gives benefit

is limited to creating financial profit rather than general advantage
gainfulness
vslucrativeness
7.0

How much money or benefit something gives

focuses on producing clear financial gain rather than general benefit

Antonyms

unprofitability
6.8

A situation in which something does not make a profit over time

How Profitable

goldmine
  • Informal
5 4.1
lucrativeness
7.7
profitability
35 3.9
loss
695 2.1

Surface Forms

lucrativeness singular
lucrativenesses plural

Morphology

lucrativeness = lucrative (transparent) = lucrative + ness

Standard nominalization of the adjective 'lucrative' with '-ness' to denote the quality or state; meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

Lucrativeness comes from an old Latin word lucrum, which means 'profit' or 'gain'. So lucrativeness describes how good something is at making 'profit'.