Valuable vs Valuableness - What's the difference?
valuable | valuableness |
Having a great value.
estimable; deserving esteem
a personal possession such as jewellery, of relatively great monetary value; — usually used in plural form.
The quality of being valuable.
* 1743 , Thomas Chubb, A collection of tracts on various subjects (volume 2, part 2, page 47)
As nouns the difference between valuable and valuableness
is that valuable is a personal possession such as jewellery, of relatively great monetary value; — usually used in plural form while valuableness is the quality of being valuable.As an adjective valuable
is having a great value.valuable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- valuable gemstones
- a valuable''' friend; a '''valuable companion
Synonyms
* (l), (l)Antonyms
* worthlessNoun
(en noun)valuableness
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Noun
(-)- And then our valuableness , strictly speaking, arises from the practice of moral duties, and not from the way and means by which we are led on, or invited to the practice of them.