Worthwhileness

  

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Worthwhileness

Definition: Worthwhileness

Worthwhileness

Noun

1. Value sufficient to repay time or effort spent.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "worthwhileness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references)

 

Usage Frequency: Worthwhileness

"Worthwhileness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Worthwhileness" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derivations: Worthwhileness

Derivations

Words beginning with "worthwhileness": worthwhilenesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Worthwhileness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-h-h-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-w-w"

-3 letters: otherwhiles.

-4 letters: hostelries, otherwhile, shorelines, worthiness, worthwhile.

-5 letters: enlisters, entresols, erstwhile, helotries, hessonite, heterosis, holsteins, honesties, hostelers, hoteliers, isotheres, listeners, litheness, nowhither, otherness, otherwise, reenlists, serotines, shoeshine, shoreline, theorises, thornless, whereinto, wherewith, whistlers, whiteners, whiteness, wholeness, worthless.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-h-h-i-l-n-o-r-s-s-t-w-w"
 

+2 letters: worthwhilenesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Worthwhileness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 6F 72 74 68 77 68 69 6C 65 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 01110111 01101000 01101001 01101100 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#104 &#119 &#104 &#105 &#108 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 006F 0072 0074 0068 0077 0068 0069 006C 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5781848674897475787180718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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