English

edit

Etymology

edit

un- +‎ usableness or unusable +‎ -ness

Noun

edit

unusableness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being unusable.
    • 1997, Eugene H. Elias, The Role of Boredom and Anxiety in Early Heidegger[1]:
      It is in the unusableness of the object that we come to see the object in its isolation.