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• n  the quality of being of practical use

• The military usefulness of such devices have always been in dispute.
• Considering their usefulness as a plot device, it's hardly surprising that science fiction and fantasy literature are filled with alternate universes of one kind or another.
• The draft on urban policy states, essentially, that the traditional big Northern city has outlived its usefulness.

• utility

• inutility
• uselessness

News & Articles

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• Google Purchases Online Mapping Service Waze
  Google has purchased online mapping service Waze for in a deal that keeps a potentially valuable tool away from its rivals while gaining technology that could improve the accuracy and usefulness of its own popular navigation system.
  June 12, 2013 - CBS San Francisco
• Google buys Waze for $1.03 billion to improve mapping service
  SAN FRANCISCO – Google is buying online mapping service Waze in a $1.03 billion deal that keeps a potentially valuable tool away from its rivals while allowing it to gain technology that could improve the accuracy and usefulness of its own popular navigation system.
  June 12, 2013 - The Buffalo News
• Google snaps up Waze to add to mapping service
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is buying online mapping service Waze in a $1.03 billion deal that keeps a potentially valuable tool away from its rivals while allowing it to gain technology that could improve the accuracy and usefulness of its own popular navigation system.
  June 11, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in San Francisco Chronicle
  Against that backdrop, Obama said, "Budget reform is not an option. It is an imperative. We cannot sustain a system that bleeds billions of taxpayer dollars on programs that have outlived their usefulness, or exist solely because of the power of a...
• Deval Patrick in Kansas City Star
  Patrick, who last year helped quash a proposed ballot question that would have reinstated Massachusetts' ban on gay marriage, said the 1913 law has "outlived its usefulness."
• Antonin Scalia in Dallas Morning News
  As Justice Scalia wrote, "A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges' assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all. Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the people...