inutility

[in-yoo-til-i-tee]

noun

plural

inutilities 

1. uselessness.

2. a useless thing or person.

Word History and Origins

Origin of inutility¹

From the Latin word inūtilitās, dating back to 1590–1600. See inutile, -ity

Example Sentences

Moreover, Valve’s centralized marketplace has become a platform for circulating uselessness and inutility as profit, with an estimated 37% of all games in a person’s Steam library having never been loaded.

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He reasoned logically on the inutility of human grief, and still more on the vanity of regretting that which could not be recalled.

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He shouted, and called, and thumped, just as you or I might have done, without any regard to its manifest inutility.

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That which is an eternal subject of dispute is an eternal inutility.

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To the present day this opinion has prevailed to a revolting degree, and it is no easy matter for the humane physician to convince a keeper of the cruelty or inutility of this practice.

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Related Words

• failure 
• impotence 
• incompetence 
• inefficiency 
• ineptitude 
• lack 
• shortcoming 
• weakness