worthlessness
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Noun
[edit]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.
- 1840 May 5, Thomas Carlyle, “Lecture I. The Hero as Divinity. Odin. Paganism: Scandinavian Mythology.”, in On Heroes, Hero-Worship and The Heroic in History, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1840, →OCLC, page 2:
- We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness under each or any of them.
- 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 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.
Translations
[edit]quality of lacking worth
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