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The quality of having to practical use
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inutility
Word definitions for inutility in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of having no practical use [syn: uselessness , unusefulness ] [ant: utility , utility ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Middle French inutilité (15c.), from Latin inutilitatem (nominative inutilitas ) "uselessness," from inutilis (see inutile ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 uselessness 2 unprofitableness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inutility \In`u*til"i*ty\, n. [L. inutilitas: cf. F. inutilit['e].] Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.
Usage examples of inutility.
Some papers which his hand brushed within the safe he pushed aside as though preadvised of their inutility to one of his calling.
To many of these experiments we should take no exception on the ground of inutility or excessive production of pain.
Know that the simple clockwork of itself has no more need for symptoms of inutility, lonesomeness, directionlessness, because now it has a path marked out for it over which it has no control.
House after house, chest after chest, in the palace precinct, is already crammed with clocks, musical boxes, blue spectacles, umbrellas, knitted waistcoats, bolts of stuff, tools, rifles, fowling-pieces, medicines, European foods, sewing-machines, and, what is more extraordinary, stoves: all that ever caught his eye, tickled his appetite, pleased him for its use, or puzzled him with its apparent inutility.