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Synonyms for usefulness
use·ful·ness
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
usefulness
The returns or receipts include all that is received from an outlay or investment; the profit is the excess (if any) of the receipts over the outlay; hence, in government, morals, etc., the profit is what is really good, helpful, useful, valuable. Utility is chiefly used in the sense of some immediate or personal and generally some material good. Advantage is that which gives one a vantage-ground, either for coping with competitors or with difficulties, needs, or demands; as to have the advantage of a good education; it is frequently used of what one has beyond another or secures at the expense of another; as, to have the advantage of another in an argument, or to take advantage of another in a bargain. Gain is what one secures beyond what he previously possessed. Benefit is anything that does one good. Emolument is profit, return, or value accruing through official position. Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character. Compare UTILITY.
Synonyms:
advantage, avail, benefit, emolument, expediency, gain, good, improvement, proceeds, profit, receipts, return, returns, service, utility, valueAntonyms:
damage, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, harm, hurt, injury, loss, ruin, wastePreposition:
The profit of labor; on capital; in business.
Princeton's WordNet
utility, usefulnessnoun
the quality of being of practical use
Synonyms:
public utility company, public-service corporation, usefulness, utility, public utility, service program, utility programAntonyms:
unusefulness, uselessness, inutility
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List of paraphrases for "usefulness":
utility, relevance, useful, value, desirability, helpfulness, benefit, use, effectiveness, feasibility, interest
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#61 | use | |
#97 | service | |
#155 | good | |
#357 | return | |
#410 | value | |
#653 | interest | |
#1162 | returns | |
#1412 | useful | |
#1727 | benefit | |
#2173 | improvement | |
#2314 | profit | |
#2419 | advantage | |
#2491 | gain | |
#2804 | utility | |
#4603 | effectiveness | |
#7211 | relevance | |
#7517 | proceeds | |
#10318 | receipts | |
#11480 | feasibility | |
#11759 | avail | |
#16611 | usefulness | |
#38226 | helpfulness | |
#38833 | desirability | |
#60531 | expediency | |
#174287 | emolument |
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Since many countries are planning to order, or have already ordered Sinovac's vaccines, it might undermine people's willingness to take them, because people may question the usefulness of the vaccines, it could be a potential stumbling block.
This visit highlights China's unique influence and makes it easier for China to showcase its potential contribution in helping move the denuclearization diplomacy forward, if China's mediation can prove helpful, it would also help demonstrate the usefulness of China to the United States as a constructive partner over key regional issues.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
As a matter of general policy, de-radicalization programs are unproven and their usefulness is doubtful, if the judge reduces the sentence that they would have otherwise imposed in a terrorism case by relying on the hope that de-radicalization will work, that just gives an unearned reward based on an unproven theory to a serious offender.
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