usefulness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

usefulness
    n 1: the quality of being of practical use [syn: {utility},
         {usefulness}] [ant: {inutility}, {unusefulness},
         {uselessness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Usefulness \Use"ful*ness\, n.
   The quality or state of being useful; utility;
   serviceableness; advantage. --Addison.
   [1913 Webster]

   Syn: Utility; value; profit. See {Utility}.
        [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "usefulness":
      account, advantage, advantageousness, advisability, agreeableness,
      applicability, appropriateness, auspiciousness, availability,
      beneficialness, benefit, benevolence, benignity, class, cogency,
      convenience, decency, desert, desirability, effectiveness,
      efficacy, efficiency, excellence, expedience, expediency, fairness,
      favorableness, feasibility, fineness, first-rateness, fitness,
      fittingness, fruitfulness, functionality, gain, goodliness,
      goodness, grace, healthiness, help, helpfulness, kindness, merit,
      niceness, operability, opportuneness, percentage, pleasantness,
      point, politicness, practicability, practical utility,
      practicality, profit, profitability, profitableness, propriety,
      prudence, purpose, purposefulness, quality, relevance,
      rewardingness, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness, service,
      serviceability, skillfulness, soundness, suitability, superiority,
      timeliness, usability, use, utility, utilizability, validity,
      value, virtue, virtuousness, wholeness, wisdom, worth,
      worthwhileness

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