Definition of "whileness" [whileness]

• Time as vicissitude; transitoriness; change. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "You will write pages and pages of interesting stuff, and then you will write a lot of conversation which is just absolute waste, without any point or worth-whileness at all; and you don't seem to know the difference."
• "The prospect who finds proof like this backing up a letter is forced to feel the worth-whileness of your goods or your proposition, and he draws forth his money with no sense of fear that he is chancing loss."
• "She did this because it was her nature -- she asked no questions about the justice of it, nor the worth-whileness of life in which destruction and death ran riot."