profitableness
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Definition
Noun: 1. The quality of affording gain, benefit, or profit: The state or characteristic of yielding a financial or material advantage. 2. The quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome: The characteristic of suggesting a high likelihood of future success or positive results.
Usage and Examples
Referring to financial or material gain:
- The profitableness of the new product line convinced the board to approve further investment.
- Investors carefully analyze the profitableness of a venture before committing funds.
Referring to a promising outcome or likelihood of success:
- The early data showed great profitableness for the research project, leading to renewed grant funding.
- We discussed the profitableness of pursuing a partnership with that company.
Advanced Usage and Notes
- "Profitableness" is a formal and somewhat less common noun. In everyday business or financial contexts, synonyms like profitability or lucrativeness are often preferred.
- It can be used in both concrete (financial) and abstract (promising) contexts, though the financial sense is more frequent.
- The word often implies a calculated or assessed quality rather than a guaranteed result.
Variants and Related Words
- Profitable (adjective): Yielding profit or financial gain; beneficial.
- a profitable business deal
- Profitability (noun): The degree to which a business or activity yields profit or financial gain. (Often used interchangeably with the first sense of "profitableness").
- The company's profitability has increased this quarter.
- Profit (noun/verb): The financial gain; to obtain a financial advantage or benefit.
- They made a large profit. The company profited from the deal.
Synonyms
- Profitability (for financial gain)
- Lucrativeness
- Advantageousness
- Fruitfulness (for successful outcome)
- Promising nature
Antonyms
- Unprofitableness
- Loss
- Disadvantageousness
- Futility
Idioms and Phrases
Note: There are no common idioms that use the exact word "profitableness." Related concepts are expressed through its root word "profit." - To turn a profit: To begin to make money from a business or activity. - Profit margin: The difference between the cost of producing something and the price for which it is sold.
Noun
- the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit
- the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome