uselessness

Other forms of uselessness

plural

uselessnesses·

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 uselessness

What does uselessness mean?

uselessness means "the quality of having no practical use".

How many syllables are in uselessness?

uselessness has 4 syllables: u-se-les-sness. The stress falls on "se".

What is another word for uselessness?

Close synonyms include inutility, unusefulness. 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 uselessness?

The recorded antonyms are usefulness.

Is uselessness a common word?

uselessness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.