Noun
uselessness (countable and uncountable, plural uselessnesses)
the quality of being useless
Most of our assumptions have outlived their uselessness. Marshall McLuhan
Chan's heart knew only greed, but there was within him enough intelligence to wonder before a man who could see all the uselessness of life, and still exult in the possessing of it. Lin Carter
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. George Bernard Shaw
My second fixed idea is the uselessness of men above sixty years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political, and in professional life, if as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. William Osler
What suffering has taught me is the uselessness of suffering. Bernard Malamud
Faith and dishonesty are other words for uselessness. Chinese Proverb