Advantageousness

ad·van·ta·geous  (dvn-tjs, -vn-)

adj.

Affording advantage; beneficial. See Synonyms at beneficial.

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advan·tageous·ly adv.

advan·tageous·ness n.

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Advantageousness 

See Also: COST

1. Beneficial … like water to a garden —Anon
2. Benefits, like bread, soon become stale —Caroline Forne
3. Benefits, like flowers, please most when they are fresh —George Herbert
4. Free [things] … free as a well to get into, but like a rat trap, not exactly free to get out of —Josh Billings

   Billings wrote in a phonetic dialect. Here’s the dialect version of the above: “I hav found a grate menny things in this wurld that was free —free az a well tew git into, but like a rat trap, not ekzackly free tu git out ov.”

5. A good deal … like trading an apple for an orchard —Anon

   The opposite of this is a German proverb: “Like trading the hen for the egg.”

6. Like parenthood, you bid [at an auction,] then see what you’ve got —John Ciardi
7. Privileges she could list as a prisoner might count out the days of his sentence —Margaret Sutherland

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

advantageousness - the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome favorableness, favourableness, profitableness, positiveness, positivity advantage, vantage - the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me" auspiciousness, propitiousness - the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result