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Seriousness vs Usefulness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between seriousness and usefulness

is that seriousness is the state or quality of being serious while usefulness is the quality of being useful, to which extent something is useful.

seriousness

English

Noun

  • The state or quality of being serious.
  • *, chapter=16
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness . But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=18 citation , passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness . ‘Should he make a row with the police […]? Or should he say nothing about it and condone brutality for fear of appearing in the newspapers?}}
  • * July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
    • Though Bane’s sing-song voice gives his pronouncements a funny lilt, he doesn’t have any of the Joker’s deranged wit, and Nolan isn’t interested in undercutting his seriousness for the sake of a breezier entertainment.

    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