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Exertion vs Instrumentality - What's the difference?

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Exertion is a related term of instrumentality.


As nouns the difference between exertion and instrumentality

is that exertion is an expenditure of physical or mental effort while instrumentality is (uncountable) the quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.

exertion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An expenditure of physical or mental effort.

    • Usage notes

    * Adjectives often used with "exertion": physical, mental, etc.

    instrumentality

    English

    Noun

    (instrumentalities)
  • (uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.
  • *1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 294:
  • *:In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the ‘great design’ which he wished to establish through her instrumentality .
  • (countable, legal) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
  • *1994 , :
  • *:Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
  • (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument
  • *{{quote-book, year=1838, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Helen Hunt Jackson, title=Bits About Home Matters, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Samuel F. B. Morse, title=Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=God works by instrumentalities , and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance. }}