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Convenience vs Expedience - What's the difference?

convenience | expedience |

As nouns the difference between convenience and expedience

is that convenience is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient while expedience is (uncountable) the quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.

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

    expedience

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
  • * Sharp
  • To determine concerning the expedience of action.
  • Speed, haste or urgency.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Making hither with all due expedience .
  • * 2008 , , Wigu: Day 13: Saturday in the Park
  • We must spring into action with a relentless sense of expedience and determination!''
  • Something that is expedient.
  • (obsolete) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Forwarding this dear expedience .

    Synonyms

    * (fitness or suitableness) expediency * expediency

    References

    * OED2 * * *