INUTILITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of having no practical use

Synonyms:

inutility; unusefulness; uselessness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("inutility" is a kind of...):

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inutility"):

futility (uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result)

worthlessness (the quality of being without practical use)

impracticality (concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use)

impracticability; impracticableness (the quality of not being usable)

Antonym:

utility (the quality of being of practical use)

Derivation:

inutile (not worth using)