Meaning & use
usefulness
The quality of being helpful, practical, or capable of serving a beneficial purpose.
See it in a sentence
The committee questioned the usefulness of a report that nobody had time to read.
Farmers quickly recognized the usefulness of the new irrigation system during the dry season.
A note on using this word
Usefulness is the everyday noun form of useful; utility is a more formal synonym common in academic or economic writing.
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
uselessness
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