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Aboutness vs Usefulness - What's the difference?

aboutness | usefulness |

As nouns the difference between aboutness and usefulness

is that aboutness is the relevance of a text to its reader while usefulness is the quality of being useful, to which extent something is useful.

aboutness

English

Noun

(es)
  • The relevance of a text to its reader.
  • * {{quote-book, 1982, William Cadbury & Leland A. Poague, Film Criticism: A Counter Theory citation
    • , passage=The experience of attending to how a good film works la a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses ," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1996, Brian C. O'Connor, Explorations in Indexing and Abstracting citation
    • , passage=Movie critics provide a good example of aboutness judgments. When some critics rave and others pan, it is not because they have seen different physical texts; rather, all the technical knowledge, topical knowledge, emotions and beliefs of each critic are being engaged in the construction of a response to the physical text.}}

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    usefulness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • the quality of being useful, to which extent something is useful
    • The usefulness of his latest reorganisation has been disputed.

    See also

    * beauty