| Noun | 1. | worthlessness - having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful; "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness"quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare fecklessness - worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual valuelessness - having none of the properties that endow something with value vanity, emptiness - the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world" worth - the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful | |