usefulness

Other forms of usefulness

plural

usefulnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about usefulness

What does usefulness mean?

usefulness means "the quality of being of practical use".

How many syllables are in usefulness?

usefulness has 3 syllables: use-ful-ness. The stress falls on "use". In IPA it is /ˈjusfəlnəs/.

What is another word for usefulness?

Close synonyms include utility. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of usefulness?

The recorded antonyms are uselessness.

Is usefulness a common word?

usefulness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.