worthlessness

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The quality of lacking worth, of being valueless, useless or devoid of benefit.

   “Kids these days far too often attribute low academic grades to feelings of worthlessness.”

   “We see men of all kinds of professed creeds attain to almost all degrees of worth or worthlessness under each or any of them.”

   “This general teaching as to the worthlessness of alcohol as a food had been set forth by the leaders in medical profession, and accepted largely by the rank and file of practitioners for about twenty-five years.”