Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being useful; conduciveness to some end; utility; serviceableness; advantage.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being of practical use
Etymologies
- useful + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Well enjoy the perks while you can because Palin will throw you under the tractor trailer wheels as soon as your usefulness is all used up.”
Latest ethics complaints should be 'a wake-up call,' Palin says
“The U.S. will have to find a balance between their immediate needs and the long-term usefulness of their actions," says Mr. Haqqani.”
“EnterRustic Fruit Desserts, a collaboration between James Beard winner Cory Schreiber and Portland baker Julie Richardson, a book whose usefulness is clear straight from the introduction, where the authors describe each pastry-fruit iteration.”
“If the truth of a scientific theory, or even its usefulness, is to be judged by its predictive abilities, what are we to make of the predictions made by Hansen before Congress some 20 years ago, when we compare them with the actual measurements of the past twenty years?”
“Their usefulness is so obvious that some soldiers here go on foot patrol with them loosely placed on each limb, ready to be tightened.”
The Washington Post: U.S. military medics use old and new techniques to save wounded in Afghanistan
“Its usefulness is limited, though, as it can't tell you when your payment arrive until about a week before they send out the check.”
“My immediate reaction was an urge to question how much of the pragmatism and usefulness is due to the ready-made group think and supporting movement.”
“As Wikipedia says, "this advancement transformed the material's usefulness from a time-consuming process ... into a mass-producible material which could be quickly inflated into large, transparent, and leak-proof vessels.”
“The institutional blogs are useful, but their usefulness is necessarily limited to a local audience, and few are compelling enough to encourage faculty, students, and attorneys to subscribe and actually read them.”
“Readers rate the comments in usefulness 1-5, with 5 being most useful and 1 being "lamest.”
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
Tweets
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bilby Where's my camera?!
Oh damn, too late. Oct 26, 2008