inutility

English

Etymology

in- +‎ utility

Noun

inutility (usually uncountable, plural inutilities)

  1. uselessness
    • 1841, A Slight Sketch of the Life of Whitlock Nicholl
      But I will hope better things for young Robert's sake; that he will learn something more important than that most useless of all inutilities, the forging of hexameters and pentameters […]
  2. unprofitableness

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References

  • inutility in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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