worthlessness
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worthlessness (usually uncountable, plural worthlessnesses)
- The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.
- Kids these days far too often attribute low academic grades to feelings of worthlessness.
- 1905, Carry Nation, chapter 28, in The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation[1], archived from the original on 11 August 2014:
- This sort of fat instead of indicating health points to disease. This general teaching as to the worthlessness of alcohol as a food had been set forth by the leaders in medical profession, and accepted largely by the rank and file of practitioners for about twenty-five years.
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quality of lacking worth
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