Difference between Utility and Usefulness

What is the difference between Utility and Usefulness?

Utility as a noun is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness. while Usefulness as a noun is the quality of being useful, to which extent something is useful

Utility

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The state or condition of being useful; usefulness. Something that is useful. The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity. A service provider, such as an electric company or water company or its securities. A software program specifically designed to help manage and tune the computer hardware, operating system or application software, and perform a single task or a small range of tasks; as opposed to application software which tend to be software suites.

Example sentence: I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

Usefulness

Part of speech: noun

Definition: the quality of being useful, to which extent something is useful

Example sentence: The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.

We hope you now know whether to use Utility or Usefulness in your sentence.

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