toolishness

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The nature of being a tool.

    不可数

    The simplest tool I can think of is a piece of gravel used for making a road. Nothing is done to it, it owes its being a tool to the fact that is subserves a purpose. A broken piece of granite used for macadamizing a road is a more complex instrument, about the toolishness of which no doubt can be entertained.

  2. 2.

    Excessive concern with tools rather than results.

    不可数

词源

From tool + -ish + -ness, influenced by foolishness.

来源:wiktionary