unprofitableness

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The "unprofitableness of agriculture," the "general unattractiveness of rural life."

From Time Magazine Archive

I didn't add that worse social wrongs might and did occur daily, in the eulogized region; knowing the utter unprofitableness of any such discussion, not to mention its danger at a period rife with excitement.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

We do wish to see the time passed in polished and intelligent society considered as the pleasant portion of our existence, and not consigned to premeditated trifling and systematic unprofitableness.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women by Lord, John

I would say one word to vindicate the lover of old musty writings, and the explorer of rude antiquities, from the charge of unprofitableness, and to protect him from the sneer of ridicule.

From Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by Merryweather, Frederick Somner

And if the advantage or convenience of the new ways can overcome the force of custom, so can the unprofitableness of the old.

From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John