WORTHWHILENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does worthwhileness mean? 

• WORTHWHILENESS (noun)
  The noun WORTHWHILENESS has 1 sense:

1. value sufficient to repay time or effort spent

  Familiarity information: WORTHWHILENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WORTHWHILENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Value sufficient to repay time or effort spent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

worth (the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful)

Derivation:

worthwhile (sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest)

 Context examples 

I often doubt, I often doubt, the worthwhileness of reason.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Their artistry was high, but he denied the worthwhileness of artistry when divorced from humanness.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)