meaningfulness
- noun
- /ˈmiːnɪŋfəlnəs/
- Many employees seek meaningfulness in their work to feel fulfilled and motivated.
- meaningfulness and usefulness
- meaningfulness and appropriateness
- meaningfulness and recall
Examples
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In her speech, she emphasized the meaningfulness of community service and its impact on people's lives.
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Also related to meaningfulness, women articulated continuing their education as meaningful in and of itself.
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And these eventually will help us to find meaningfulness at work.
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Things only mean as much as the meaningfulness that we allow them to have.
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In Question 9, students were asked about the meaningfulness of their high school PE experience.
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In most cases, meaningfulness was presented as an anticipated result of the learning experience.
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Study 1 provided evidence of a relationship between stimulus meaningfulness and recall.
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The advantage of working with whole words rests on their accessibility and their meaningfulness.
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One additional source of boredom is the absence of meaningfulness attached to the athlete's sport involvement.
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Future research should examine the meaningfulness and intricacies of all of these relationships concurrently.
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Synonyms
How much something is worth in money or how useful it is
A quality that makes something have great value or effect
How important something is or how much it matters
A feeling of having a clear aim in life or work that gives you motivation
A quality that is easy to notice and more important than other things
Importance of a fact or detail that needs attention
A clear aim and strong determination to reach it
The quality of being important and serious that makes people pay attention
Having real importance or enough evidence to be believed
Being very important and likely to have big effects
The quality of having clear meaning or a useful purpose
The quality of being large, solid, or important
Something that has enough value to make the time or effort a good use
Antonyms
How Meaningful
Surface Forms
Morphology
meaningfulness = meaningful (transparent) = mean + ing + ful + ness
The word is a regular noun formation from the adjective 'meaningful', whose meaning is itself compositionally built from 'mean' plus common derivational suffixes.
Etymology
The word meaningfulness comes from meaning + -ful + -ness. It literally means the state of being 'full of meaning' or having 'importance' or 'purpose', so it describes something that feels valuable or important.