purposefulness

Questions about purposefulness

What is another word for purposefulness?

It depends which purposefulness you mean. In the sense “the quality of having a definite purpose”, the synonyms are sense of purpose. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of purposefulness?

The recorded antonym is purposelessness. Opposites are sense-specific too: this page shows which meaning each one is the opposite of, because a word rarely has a single opposite that holds for all of its senses.

Where do the synonyms for purposefulness come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of purposefulness

• Full entry for purposefulnessAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for purposefulnessWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.