Definition of "worthlessness" []

• The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit. (noun)

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• "The problem is, young gay kids -- the target of It Gets Better -- are learning about their worthlessness from the actions of the President's office."
• "This usually causes an eruption of huge emotion as the normal feeling of worthlessness is contradicted by the new worth in the person’s bank account."
• "As to the "worthlessness" of the bonds that the Treasury has issued to * itself* in the trust fund as a means of saving to finance its future obigations, they are no more or less worthless than any debt that any party issues to itself as a means of saving to pay a future cash flow need."