Definition of "worthwhileness" [worthwhileness]

• The condition of being worthwhile. (noun)

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• "And because there was that element of greatness in her, which was also in her father, she thought less of the "worthwhileness" of doing than of the poorness of _not_ doing."
• "The more he thought of the purposes, sweet, high, and disinterested, that moved her, the more was he pained at a sense of frivolity, or, at least, at a want of "worthwhileness" in his own aims."
• "Any change to the law, he added, would result in the "worthwhileness" of some lives being"