worthlessness

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worthlessness (usually uncountable, plural worthlessnesses)

The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.
Kids these days far too often attribute low academic grades to feelings of worthlessness.

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To believe that is we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness. Eric Hoffer

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness. Margaret Fuller

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another. Arthur Schopenhauer

Christianity preaches the infinite worth of that which is seemingly worthless and the infinite worthlessness of that which is seemingly so valued. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing. Iris Murdoch

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. Hu Shih

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