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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

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

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

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.