Definition of "unserviceableness" [unserviceableness]

• The character or state of being unserviceable; uselessness. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The unfavourable issue was ascribed to the vessels 'unserviceableness for voyages in the Polar Sea, in consequence of which the Board of Admiralty ordered two other boats,"
• "Lucy was seated by the bedside, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, and looked as if she had not slept for several nights; while Miss Wodehouse, who, notwithstanding all her anxiety to be of use, was far more helpless than Lucy, stood on the side next the door, with her eyes fixed on her sister, watching with pathetic unserviceableness for the moment when she could be of some use."
• "We shall, however, find some very notable relations existing between the two groups of the wild flowers of dry land, which represent, in the widest extent, and the distinctest opposition, the two characters of material serviceableness and unserviceableness; the groups which in our English classification will be easily remembered as those of the Thyme, and the"