Convenience vs Expediency - What's the difference?
convenience | expediency |
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; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
* Cogan
* Whately
(uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.
(obsolete) Haste; dispatch.
(countable) An expedient.
As nouns the difference between convenience and expediency
is that convenience is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient while expediency is the quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.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
* *expediency
English
Noun
- Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
- Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency , as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled.
