worthlessness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.19 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Kids these days far too often attribute low academic grades to feelings of worthlessness."
- "We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness under each or any of them."
- "This general teaching as to the worthlessness of alcohol as a food had been set forth by the leaders in medical profession, and accepted largely by the rank and file of practitioners for about twenty-five years."
Etymology
Etymology tree English worthless Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English worthlessness From worthless + -ness.