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Meaning of PRACTICALITY

Pronunciation:  pr`aktik'alutee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities
 
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 Antonyms: impracticality
 
 See Also: functionality, realism, sensibleness, usefulness, utility, viability

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Prac`ti*cal"i*ty\, n.
The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.
 
Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: achievability, actability, adaptability, applicability, attainability, availability, balance, common sense, compassability, convenience, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, down-to-earthness, ductility, due sense of, earthiness, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, feasibility, flexibility, freedom from illusion, functionality, good sense, handiness, hardheadedness, helpfulness, horse sense, lack of feelings, level head, levelheadedness, malleability, manageability, manageableness, maneuverability, matter-of-factness, negotiability, operability, performability, plain sense, pliability, pliancy, positivism, practicability, practical mind, practical utility, practical wisdom, practical-mindedness, practicalness, pragmaticism, pragmatism, profitability, rationality, realism, realizability, reason, reasonableness, saneness, sanity, scientism, secularism, sense, sensibleness, serviceability, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, soundness, superability, surmountability, unidealism, unromanticalness, unsentimentality, untroublesomeness, usability, use, usefulness, utility, utilizability, viability, viableness, wieldableness, wieldiness, workability, worldliness
 

 

 

 

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