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Practicality   /prˌæktɪkˈæləti/   Listen
Practicality

noun
1.
Concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities.





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"Practicality" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Practicality is not altogether bad. It is often necessary in this practical world. What case is Mr. Kendrick likely to put in your hands which ...
— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln
... freedom in this country, and the absolute medical freedom (until within a few years the colleges have procured medical legislation to help their diplomas, and their graduates) have given a progressiveness and practicality to American physicians which are beginning to be ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, July 1887 - Volume 1, Number 6 • Various
... perceived fully how silly, weak, grotesque, and vain I was; and yet, how big and wonderful, it would be to swim counter, as I meant, to the huge, swollen, successful currents of the commercial, bourgeois practicality of present-day America. ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp


Words linked to "Practicality" :   realism, practical, functionality, impractical, impracticality, viability, sensibleness, usefulness, pragmatism, utility


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