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WORTHLESSNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful
Example:
the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("worthlessness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "worthlessness"):
fecklessness (worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual)
groundlessness; idleness (the quality of lacking substance or value)
paltriness; sorriness (worthlessness due to insignificance)
valuelessness (having none of the properties that endow something with value)
shoddiness; trashiness (the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better)
damn; darn; hoot; red cent; shit; shucks; tinker's dam; tinker's damn (something of little value)
emptiness; vanity (the quality of being valueless or futile)
Antonym:
worth (the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful)
Derivation:
worthless (lacking in usefulness or value)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being without practical use
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("worthlessness" is a kind of...):
inutility; unusefulness; uselessness (the quality of having no practical use)
