unusableness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ usableness or unusable +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

unusableness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being unusable.
    • 1997, Eugene H. Elias, The Role of Boredom and Anxiety in Early Heidegger[1]:
      It is in the unusableness of the object that we come to see the object in its isolation.