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Answer for the clue "The quality of being beneficial and generally good for you ", 13 letters:
wholesomeness

Word definitions for wholesomeness in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you [ant: unwholesomeness ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wholesome \Whole"some\, a. [Compar. Wholesomer ; superl. Wholesomest .] [Whole + some; cf. Icel. heilsamr, G. heilsam, D. heilzaam.] Tending to promote health; favoring health; salubrious; salutary. Wholesome thirst and appetite. --Milton. From which the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being wholesome.

Usage examples of wholesomeness.

Eisenhower was president in those willfully innocent years, a convalescent tone prevailed, and a peculiarly aggressive style of wholesomeness was being celebrated as a national ideal, best exemplified in such demonstrations of folksy solidarity as the family dinner and the family outing.

In order to express them with counters, we need to divide Cakes in THREE different ways, with regard to newness, to niceness, and to wholesomeness.

There was a wholesomeness, a broadmindedness about her that instinctively drew one towards her.

But so far, no one had appeared in support of these day-dreams: the only girls he met at home were the approved daughters of his mother's friends, selected, it seemed to him, for their inherent wholesomeness, and his only feminine contact at Liverpool was a Wren in the Pay Office, who was much too interested in her career to spare any attention for a sub-lieutenant, and met his tentative advances with a smile as thin as his single stripe.

The gruel came and supplied a great deal to be said--much praise and many comments-- undoubting decision of its wholesomeness for every constitution, and pretty severe Philippics upon the many houses where it was never met with tolerable.