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practicality
| Main Entry: |
practicality
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | concern with actual use |
| Synonyms: | common sense, gumption, horse sense |
| Antonyms: | impracticality |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
| Synonyms: | advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, rightness, suitability, usefulness, utilitarianism, utility |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | experience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, action, actuality, background, caution, combat, contact, doing, empiricism, evidence, existence, exposure, familiarity, forebearance, intimacy, involvement, inwardness, judgment, know-how, maturity, observation, participation, patience, perspicacity, practicality, practice, proof, reality, savoir-faire, seasoning, sense, skill, sophistication, strife, struggle, training, trial, understanding, wisdom, worldliness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, immaturity, inexperience |
| Main Entry: | sagacity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wisdom |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, brains, clear thinking, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, experience, foresight, good judgment, insight, intelligence, judgment, knowledge, levelheadedness, perceptiveness, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, sageness, sapience, sense, shrewdness, understanding |
| Main Entry: | utility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serviceableness |
| Synonyms: | account, adequacy, advantage, advantageousness, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, convenience, efficacy, efficiency, expediency, favor, fitness, function, point, practicality, productiveness, profit, relevance, service, serviceability, use, usefulness |
| Main Entry: | usefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | value |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benefit, efficiency, practicality, suitability, utility |
| Antonyms: | unusefulness, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | wisdom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | insight, common sense |
| Synonyms: | acumen, astuteness, balance, brains, caution, circumspection, clear thinking, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, enlightenment, erudition, experience, foresight, good judgment, gumption*, horse sense, information, intelligence, judgment, judiciousness, knowledge, learning, pansophy, penetration, perspicacity, poise, practicality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sageness, sanity, sapience, savoir faire, savvy*, shrewdness, solidity, sophistication, stability, understanding |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wit/wits |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, intelligence |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, astucity, astuteness, awareness, balance, brainpower, brains, cleverness, common sense, comprehension, depth of perception, discernment, discrimination, esprit, grasp, ingenuity, insight, keenness, lucidity, marbles, mentality, mind, perception, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, rationality, reason, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, saneness, sanity, sapience, sense, shrewdness, soundness, understanding, wisdom |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
| Main Entry: | usefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | utility |
| Synonyms: | advantage, convenience, helpfulness, practicability, practicality, profitableness, serviceability, usability, value, versatility |
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