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ˈuselessness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being useless; futility, inutility.
1690Locke Hum. Und. iii. iv. §10 Another Peripatetick definition..which..betrays its Uselessness and Insignificancy. 1733–4Bp. Berkeley in Fraser Life (1871) vi. 217 The impropriety and uselessness of..going to Cloyne. a1768Secker Serm. (1771) VI. 69 The Revelation of St. John is accused of Obscurity, and consequently of Uselessness. 1845James Arrah Neil v, The uselessness of remonstrance or opposition. 1889S. Langdon Appeal to Serpent i. 23 These vast monuments of laborious uselessness. |