"uselessness" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Etymology tree\nProto-Italic *oissos\nLatin ūsus\nOld French usbor.\nMiddle English use\nEnglish use\nProto-Indo-European *lewh₁-\nProto-Indo-European *lewHs-der.\nProto-Germanic *leusaną\nProto-Germanic *lausaz\nProto-Germanic *-lausaz\nProto-West Germanic *-laus\nOld English -lēas\nMiddle English -les\nEnglish -less\nEnglish useless\nProto-Germanic *-in-\nProto-Indo-European *-h₂\nProto-Indo-European *-éh₂\nProto-Indo-European *-yéti\nProto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti\nProto-Indo-European *-h₂ti\nProto-Germanic *-ōną\nProto-Germanic *-inōną\nProto-Indo-European *-dyé-\nProto-Germanic *-atjaną\nProto-Indo-European *-tus\nProto-Germanic *-þuz\nProto-Germanic *-assuz\nProto-Germanic *-inassuz\nProto-West Germanic *-nassī\nOld English -nes\nMiddle English -nesse\nEnglish -ness\nEnglish uselessness\nFrom useless + -ness.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "uselessnesses",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "uselessness (countable and uncountable, plural uselessnesses)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "Entries with translation boxes",
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        "Pages with etymology trees",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Hungarian translations",
        "Terms with Irish translations",
        "Terms with Macedonian translations",
        "Terms with Old English translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state or quality of being useless."
      ],
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        [
          "useless",
          "useless"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "word": "turhanpäiväisyys"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inutilité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Sinnlosigkeit"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "word": "használhatatlanság"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "lang_code": "ga",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "neamhúsáid"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "beskórisnost",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "беско́рисност"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "lang_code": "mk",
      "roman": "bespóleznost",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "беспо́лезност"
    },
    {
      "code": "ang",
      "lang": "Old English",
      "lang_code": "ang",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "unnytnes"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "bezużyteczność"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inutilidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "bespoléznostʹ",
      "sense": "quality of being useless",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "бесполе́зность"
    }
  ],
  "word": "uselessness"
}