The Collaborative International Dictionary
Needlessness
Needless \Nee"dless\, a.
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Having no need. [Obs.]
Weeping into the needless stream.
--Shak. Not wanted; unnecessary; not requisite; as, needless labor; needless expenses.
Without sufficient cause; groundless; causeless. ``Needless jealousy.''
--Shak. [1913 Webster] -- Need"less*ly, adv. -- Need"less*ness, n.
Wiktionary
needlessness
n. the state or characteristic of being needless
Usage examples of "needlessness".
Mountstuart comprised all that the others had said, by showing the needlessness of allusions to the saliently evident.
The very needlessness, the impracticalness of it, increased her feeling for him—a feeling not to be roused by a man performing a merely useful service, no matter how hazardous.