noun. The state or character of being useless; unserviceableness; unfitness for any valuable purpose or for the purpose intended.

noun. the quality of being useless

noun. the quality of having no practical use

"For all its protestations of a global reach and its prating about the ascendancy of "soft power", when the chips are down, its utter uselessness is so evident that even that does not warrant comment."

utility  

quality  

futility  impracticability  impracticableness  impracticality  worthlessness  

awfulness  destitution  futility  helplessness  hopelessness  

bankruptcy  bootlessness  counterproductiveness  counterproductivity  defeat