serviceableness

as in usefulness
the capacity for being useful for some purpose the serviceableness of most of the junk that my grandfather had been hoarding was very doubtful

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Noun
  • Still, its roughly six-hour run time will limit its usefulness in certain scenarios.
    Matthew Buzzi, PCMAG, 6 Feb. 2025
  • Some initiatives have outlived their usefulness or have led to dependency rather than the development outcomes that were intended.
    Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This appears to be its first use of a new policy to criminally investigate state and local officials who do not comply with Trump's directives.
    Sarah N. Lynch, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The days and nights are filled with drinking and recreational drug use — and all appears well until Jess gets bitten by a snake and disappears soon after.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 1 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Readers may be surprised by a scene in which a young Michaels, himself a comedian, pitches jokes to Woody Allen, to little avail.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 10 Feb. 2025
  • The surviving members even took a crack at properly recording and mixing it in 1995, to little avail.
    August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2025
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“Serviceableness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/serviceableness. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025.

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