usefulness
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- noun
- /ˈjuːs.fəl.nəs/
:
utilidad
- The usefulness of this tool has made it a favorite among professionals.
- outlive its usefulness
- interest and usefulness
- demonstrate the usefulness
Friendships of pleasure and friendships of usefulness are of shorter duration.
- Friendships of pleasure and friendships of usefulness are of shorter duration.
- I think, you know, there's a tremendous under appreciation for the usefulness of useless knowledge, right?
- What is the potential usefulness of this for people who don't have super strong PTSD?
- And so by making that a goal, then it means that you're going to increase your own usefulness.
- What what about is there a line to be drawn between myth and religion in terms of its usefulness in man's search for meaning?
- A short time ago, an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima and destroyed its usefulness to the enemy.
- And so, yeah, so I, I kind of worry about the usefulness of extremely plot driven writing books.
- One is there's a very pragmatic problem, which is like what would make robots, what sort of maximize the usefulness of robots?
- Some it's not even pleasure, it's usefulness or benefit in in some way.
Examples
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We believe that this study has demonstrated the usefulness of our technique in furthering these goals.
Academic text (2011) -
Further research is needed to determine its usefulness as a comprehensive communication curriculum.
Academic text (1999) -
Although I am seeing more that we sort of have to prove our usefulness in some ways.
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I will show you what we think the usefulness of the this model system would be.
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But when the wall came down, the usefulness of the program came to question.
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Be curious about the basic science and at some point the usefulness and the applications will follow.
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Times like these, I prove my usefulness.
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Even so, input and output data are of limited usefulness by themselves.
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What are middle school students' perceptions of the usefulness of the school library?
Academic text (2011) -
I think, you know, there's a tremendous under appreciation for the usefulness of useless knowledge, right?
Synonyms
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The quality of being useful for a particular purpose
The quality that makes something helpful and easy to work with
A measure of how well something works for people
Antonyms
How Useful
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Usefulness comes from the simple verb use, which means 'to make use of something'. Add -ful ('full of') as in useful, and -ness ('the quality or state of'), and you get 'the quality of being useful', so usefulness means how good something is at being used for a practical purpose.