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Answer for the clue "The quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit ", 15 letters:
unprofitability

Word definitions for unprofitability in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit [syn: unprofitableness ] [ant: profitableness , profitableness ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or condition of being unprofitable.

Usage examples of unprofitability.

Unlike the genetic unprofitability of polyandry for Tre-ba women, polygyny paid off well for nineteenth-century Mormon men, whose average lifetime output of children increased from a mere seven children for Mormon men with one wife to sixteen or twenty children for men with two or three wives, respectively, and to twenty-five children for Mormon church leaders, who averaged five wives.