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meaningfulness

meaningfulness

1 4.9
Something that has a clear purpose or value
  • noun
  • /ˈmiːnɪŋfəlnəs/
translation icon : significatividad
  • Many employees seek meaningfulness in their work to feel fulfilled and motivated.
  • meaningfulness and usefulness
  • meaningfulness and appropriateness
  • meaningfulness and recall

Examples

  • In her speech, she emphasized the meaningfulness of community service and its impact on people's lives.

  • Also related to meaningfulness, women articulated continuing their education as meaningful in and of itself.

    Academic text (2008)
  • And these eventually will help us to find meaningfulness at work.

  • Things only mean as much as the meaningfulness that we allow them to have.

  • In Question 9, students were asked about the meaningfulness of their high school PE experience.

    Academic text (2015)
  • In most cases, meaningfulness was presented as an anticipated result of the learning experience.

    Academic text (2008)
  • Study 1 provided evidence of a relationship between stimulus meaningfulness and recall.

    Academic text (1995)
  • The advantage of working with whole words rests on their accessibility and their meaningfulness.

    Academic text (2002)
  • One additional source of boredom is the absence of meaningfulness attached to the athlete's sport involvement.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Future research should examine the meaningfulness and intricacies of all of these relationships concurrently.

    Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

value
vsmeaningfulness
1.3

How much something is worth in money or how useful it is

also covers having personal or deeper purpose beyond usefulness
importance
vsmeaningfulness
663 1.0

A quality that makes something have great value or effect

adds the sense of having a clear purpose or deeper meaning
significance
vsmeaningfulness
194 3.8

How important something is or how much it matters

adds the idea of having purpose or practical value as well
sense of purpose
vsmeaningfulness
22 3.5

A feeling of having a clear aim in life or work that gives you motivation

is an objective quality of having purpose, value, or broader significance
salience
vsmeaningfulness
2 7.5

A quality that is easy to notice and more important than other things

refers instead to having deeper purpose, value, or lasting significance
materiality
vsmeaningfulness
  • Specialized
2 8.4

Importance of a fact or detail that needs attention

is broader, adding purpose and overall worth beyond attention
purposefulness
vsmeaningfulness
1 4.9

A clear aim and strong determination to reach it

is about having broader worth or meaningful value, not only aim
weightiness
vsmeaningfulness
1 6.7

The quality of being important and serious that makes people pay attention

covers seriousness but also includes purpose and practical value
substantiality
vsmeaningfulness
1 7.9

Having real importance or enough evidence to be believed

includes that real importance but also stresses purpose and value
momentousness
vsmeaningfulness
  • Formal
1 7.9

Being very important and likely to have big effects

is less about scale and more about overall purpose and value
pointfulness
vsmeaningfulness
8.9

The quality of having clear meaning or a useful purpose

includes that direct purpose plus broader worth and significance
substantialness
vsmeaningfulness
6.6

The quality of being large, solid, or important

extends that idea to include meaningful purpose and personal value
worthwhileness
vsmeaningfulness
7.8

Something that has enough value to make the time or effort a good use

is wider, covering intrinsic purpose or importance beyond cost justification

Antonyms

A state of not being important or having little effect

A feeling that what you do has no purpose or value

How Meaningful

depth
146 4.4
meaningfulness
1 4.9
significance
194 3.8
triviality
6 5.4

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.