Expedience vs Effectiveness - What's the difference?
expedience | effectiveness |
(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
The property of being effective, of achieving results.
The capacity or potential for achieving results.
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The degree to which something achieves results.
* 2013 , Phil McNulty, "[http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980]", BBC Sport , 1 September 2013:
As nouns the difference between expedience and effectiveness
is that 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 while effectiveness is the property of being effective, of achieving results.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 .
Synonyms
* (fitness or suitableness) expediency * expediencyReferences
* OED2 * * *effectiveness
English
(wikipedia effectiveness)Noun
(-)- The effectiveness of the drug was well established.
- He questioned the effectiveness of the treatment.
- United were having more possession but a sign of the effectiveness of Liverpool's defence was that it took the visitors 76 minutes to force Mignolet into serious action, when he dived to punch away a shot from substitute Nani.