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practicality
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun practicality has 1 sense
- practicality(n = noun.attribute) Array - concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities; Array is a kind of usefulness, utility
has particulars: functionality, viability, sensibleness, pragmatism, realism
Antonym: impracticality
Derived forms adjective practical1, adjective practical2
CIDE DICTIONARY
practicality, n.
The quality or state of being practical; practicalness. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
practicality
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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