toolishness

Etymology
, influenced by

Noun

 * 1) The nature of being a tool.
 * 2) * a. 1902, Samuel Butler, Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill editors, Notebooks: Selections, 1951, page 122
 * 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.
 * 1) Excessive concern with tools rather than results.