Word Meanings - USEFULNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Addison. Syn. -- Utility; value; profit. See Utility.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of USEFULNESS)

• Efficacy
• Efficiency
• competency
• virtue
• agency
• capability
• usefulness
• energy
• productiveness
• effectiveness

Related words: (words related to USEFULNESS)

• EFFICACY
  Power to produce effects; operation or energy of an agent or force; production of the effect intended; as, the efficacy of medicine in counteracting disease; the efficacy of prayer. "Of noxious efficacy." Milton. Syn. -- Virtue; force;
• ENERGY
  Capacity for performing work. Note: The kinetic energy of a body is the energy it has in virtue of being in motion. It is measured by one half of the product of the mass of each element of the body multiplied by the square of the velocity of the
• VIRTUELESS
  Destitute of virtue; without efficacy or operating qualities; powerless. Virtueless she wished all herbs and charms. Fairfax.
• AGENCY
  1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between
• VIRTUE
  One of the orders of the celestial hierarchy. Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. Milton. Cardinal virtues. See under Cardinal, a. -- In, or By, virtue of, through the force of; by authority of. "He used to travel through Greece by
• USEFULNESS
  The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Addison. Syn. -- Utility; value; profit. See Utility.
• CAPABILITY
  1. The quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor. 2. Capacity of being used or improved.
• EFFECTIVENESS
  The quality of being effective.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• EFFICIENCE; EFFICIENCY
  The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Rankine. Efficiency of a heat engine, the ratio of the work done an engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it. (more info) 1. The quality of being efficient or producing an effect or effects;
• INTERAGENCY
  Intermediate agency.
• INCAPABILITY
  Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office. (more info) 1. The quality of being incapable; incapacity. Suckling.
• SUBAGENCY
  A subordinate agency.
• COEFFICACY
  Joint efficacy.
• INCOMPETENCE; INCOMPETENCY
  Want of competency or legal fitness; incapacity; disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as a juror, or of a judge to try a cause. Syn. -- Inability; insufficiency; inadequacy; disqualification; incapability; unfitness.
• INEFFICIENCY
  The quality of being inefficient; want of power or energy sufficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged from his position for inefficiency.
• COEFFICIENCY
  Joint efficiency; coöperation. Glanvill.
• INEFFICACY
  Want of power to produce the desired or proper effect; inefficiency; ineffectualness; futility; uselessness; fruitlessness; as, the inefficacy of medicines or means. The seeming inefficacy of censures. Bp. Hall. The inefficacy was soon proved, like
• COMPETENCE; COMPETENCY
  1. The state of being competent; fitness; ability; adequacy; power. The loan demonstrates, in regard to instrumental resources, the competency of this kingdom to the assertion of the common cause. Burke. To make them act zealously is not in the
• TELENERGY
  Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; - - applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Tel`en*er"gic , a.
• COAGENCY
  Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.