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Wastage vs Wastefulness - What's the difference?

wastage | wastefulness |

As nouns the difference between wastage and wastefulness

is that wastage is the amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration while wastefulness is imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources.

wastage

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The amount or proportion of something that is wasted or lost by deterioration
    • The average wastage is 1.5% in the grocery department.
  • (countable) Anything lost by wear or waste
  • Goods that are damaged, out of date, reduced, or generally unsaleable, which are destined to be thrown away and which are written off as a loss
  • In hunting, the act of abandoning animal carcasses or parts; usually illegal

    • wastefulness

    English

    Noun

    (wastefulness) (-)
  • imprudent or excessive expenditure or the waste of resources
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Arsenal paid the price for that wastefulness when Chelsea took the lead after 14 minutes. Mata was afforded to much space by Santos and when the ponderous Per Mertesacker missed his cross Lampard timed his arrival perfectly to head past Wojciech Szczesny.}}