Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or state of being advantageous; profitableness; usefulness; convenience.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Profitableness.
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- noun The state or quality of being
advantageous .
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- noun the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome
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Examples
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The advantageousness of the transaction is mutual, not the exploitation.
Exploitation Wertheimer, Alan 2008
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Just look at Simon Baron-Cohen; although he accepts the advantageousness of autism in some situations, with a spin he declares it a difference that is much more likely to occur in males - and that it's just the "extreme male" variation.
Girly Boys: boys who have gendered girl interests and boys on girl's teams. Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Her guardian, from a pure love of his ward, and a sense of the advantageousness of the offer, heartily espoused the interests of the young gentleman.
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At the end of a long and possibly somewhat dull winter his wife began to hint the advantageousness of transferring themselves to that other part of town.
On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller
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The Press dilated speciously on the economy practised under the system and on its general advantageousness.
The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan
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The three forms differ not in the power of the sovereign, but in their advantageousness.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Various 1910
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As to the relative advantageousness of Commerce and Agriculture, the preference was given to commerce.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907
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By the masses of the common people, he does not mean the Russian nation only, but all the toilers and producers of the earth, without regard to nationality; while by the faith which he seeks among those toilers, he does not mean any fixed religious belief, but faith in the reasonableness and advantageousness of life, and of everything which exists, placing this faith in dependence upon brisk, healthy toil.
A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections Isabel Florence Hapgood 1889
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Rooms are classified according to the advantageousness of their view of the mountain.
Luxist 2010
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Rooms are classified according to the advantageousness of their view of the mountain.
Luxist 2010
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