Synonyms for expediency
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Noun
Definitions
- n. 1
The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
Related words
- Word family
- expedience expedient expedite expedition
Forms
- Plural
- expediencies → expediences, proprieties, conveniences, usefulnesses…
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Expediency has respect to profit or advantage, real or supposed, considered apart from or perhaps in opposition to right, in actions having a moral character.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- convenience Why don't you drop in for tea at your convenience?
- usefulness He has doubts regarding astrology's usefulness.
- propriety Propriety cannot be separated from honesty.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| expediency | falling | |
| convenience | falling | |
| usefulness | falling | |
| propriety | falling | |
| expedience | steady | |
| suitableness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- profit2
- 7 letters
- fitness2
- 9 letters
- advantage3, propriety4
- 10 letters
- usefulness3, expedience4
- 11 letters
- convenience3
- 12 letters
- suitableness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (profit2 = 2 syllables).