whileness

You will write pages and pages of interesting stuff, and then you will write a lot of conversation which is just absolute waste, without any point or worth-whileness at all; and you don't seem to know the difference.

The Romance of Sinclair Lewis Vidal, Gore 1992

The prospect who finds proof like this backing up a letter is forced to feel the worth-whileness of your goods or your proposition, and he draws forth his money with no sense of fear that he is chancing loss.

Business Correspondence Anonymous

But with the dawn of reason the thinker has to justify his faith; to convince himself that life is sincere, that there is worth-whileness in being, or in seeking to be; that there is order in creation, laws which can be discovered, processes which can be applied.

The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

She did this because it was her nature -- she asked no questions about the justice of it, nor the worth-whileness of life in which destruction and death ran riot.

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

But with the dawn of reason the thinker has to justify his faith; to convince himself that life is sincere, that there is worth-whileness in being, or in seeking to be; that there is order in creation, laws which can be discovered, processes which can be applied.

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918

They declare by what they are and do that there is a worth-whileness in effort and sacrifice.

Thoughts on religion at the front 1911

She did this because it was her nature -- she asked no questions about the justice of it, nor the worth-whileness of life in which destruction and death ran riot.

The Jungle 1906

It is the faith which the sunshiny spirit has in the "worth whileness" of life and its possibilities that makes him or her who possesses it prepare for the best that is to come.

The Girl Wanted Nixon Waterman 1901

I know you and Robin anyhow, but the actor makes the world seem fuller of courage and worth-whileness.

August First Roy Irving Murray 1898

War is to-day the final arbiter in the affairs of men, and it is as yet the final test of the worth-whileness of peoples.

Revolution, and Other Essays Jack London 1896