serviceableness

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The formulation of definitions and laws in exclusively mechanical terms is not due to the exhaustive or even preëminent reality of these properties, but to their peculiar serviceableness in a verifiable description of events.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

The only real test of health is the serviceableness to the needs of life.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

Nor was there any doubt that the work which the youth found interesting and attractive at the time was the work in which he might find a maximum of ultimate success, satisfaction, and serviceableness.

From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.

This was the Greek artists' idea of the serviceableness of nature, as revealed both by their practice and by such traditions as that concerning Zeuxis and his five beautiful models for the figure of Venus.

From Albert Durer by Moore, T. Sturge

It is shabby to offer Him the mere hull of the boat when the storms of passion have carried its serviceableness away.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by Jowett, John Henry