Convenience vs Expedience - What's the difference?
convenience | expedience |
the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient
* Shakespeare
anything that makes for an easier life
* Cowper
* Jonathan Swift
a convenient time, especially in the phrase at one's convenience
(chiefly, British) a public toilet
(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
Speed, haste or urgency.
* Shakespeare
* 2008 , ,
Something that is expedient.
(obsolete) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
* Shakespeare
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
English
(wikipedia convenience)Noun
(en noun)- Let's further think of this; / Weigh what convenience both of time and means / May fit us to our shape.
- Thus first Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs
- A pair of spectacles and several other little conveniences .
- Fast food is popular because of its cost and convenience .
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* convenience food * convenience store * flag of convenience * marriage of convenienceExternal links
* *expedience
English
Noun
- To determine concerning the expedience of action.
- Making hither with all due expedience .
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- We must spring into action with a relentless sense of expedience and determination!''
- Forwarding this dear expedience .