inutility

Noun

inutility (usually uncountable, plural inutilities)

1. (usually) Uselessness.
2. (usually) Unprofitableness.
3. (countable, usually) Something of no use.
   • But I will hope better things for young Robert's sake; that he will learn something more important than that most useless of all inutilities, the forging of hexameters and pentameters […]1841, A Slight Sketch of the Life of Whitlock Nicholl
   • A hideous account of a hanging, drawing, and quartering had first attracted him to it; but later he discovered the book (Curiosities of Literature was its name) full of the finest confused feeding—such as forgeries and hoaxes, Italian literary societies, religious and scholastic controversies of...1899, Rudyard Kipling, Stalky & Co.