Usage vs Usefulness - What's the difference?
usage | usefulness |
The manner or the amount of using; use
Habit or accepted practice
(lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
# Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
# Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.
the quality of being useful, to which extent something is useful
As nouns the difference between usage and usefulness
is that usage is the manner or the amount of using; use while usefulness is the quality of being useful, to which extent something is useful.usage
English
(wikipedia usage)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* usage dictionary * usage guide * usage label * usage lexicography * usage note * usage panelReferences
* * Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.Anagrams
* ----usefulness
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Noun
(-)- The usefulness of his latest reorganisation has been disputed.