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Practicality vs Convenience - What's the difference?

practicality | convenience |

As nouns the difference between practicality and convenience

is that practicality is the state of being practical or feasible while convenience is the quality of being suitable, useful or convenient.

practicality

English

Noun

(practicalities)
  • (uncountable) The state of being practical or feasible.

    • Antonyms

    * impracticality

    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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