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Convenience vs Functionality - What's the difference?

convenience | functionality |

As nouns the difference between convenience and functionality

is that convenience is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient while functionality is the ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.

convenience

English

(wikipedia 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

    Related terms

    * convene * convenient * convent * convention

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    functionality

    English

    Noun

  • The ability to perform a task or function; that set of functions that something is able or equipped to perform.
  • (US, legal) In United States trademark law, the tendency of a product design to serve a function other than identification of the product, preventing that design from being protected as a trademark.
  • (organic chemistry) The presence of a functional group.
    • Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4] (pdf) from [http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/chemical-synthesis/learning-center/aldrichimica-acta.html Sigma-Aldrich
  • :: The vinyldiazomethanes that have been commonly used in our studies contain an electron-withdrawing group adjacent to the diazo functionality .

    • Related terms

    * function * functional