[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality or state of being advantageous; profitableness, usefulness.
1659. Boyle, Love of God, § 18. 117. The last Property which qualify’s God the fittest Object for our Love … is the Advantagiousness of His to us.
1750. F. Coventry, Pompey the Little, V. (1788), 40. The advantageousness of the match soon prevailed with her parents.
1833. Ht. Martineau, Loom & Lugger, II. v. 90. The advantageousness of trade.
