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Convenience vs Appurtenance - What's the difference?

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Convenience is a related term of appurtenance.


As nouns the difference between convenience and appurtenance

is that convenience is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient while appurtenance is an appendage added to something else.

convenience

Noun

(en noun)
  • the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient
  • * Shakespeare
  • Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.
  • anything that makes for an easier life
  • * Cowper
  • Thus first Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences .
    Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience .
  • a convenient time, especially in the phrase at one's convenience
  • (chiefly, British) a public toilet
  • Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * convenience food * convenience store * flag of convenience * marriage of convenience

    appurtenance

    Alternative forms

    * appurtenaunce (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An appendage added to something else.
  • (in the plural) Equipment used for some specific task; gear.
  • The thing to which another pertains.
  • (legal) Minor property (such as an outhouse) that passes with the main property when it is sold.
  • (grammar) A modifier that is appended or prepended to another word to coin a new word that expresses belonging.
  • Synonyms

    * contenement