Relevance vs Expediency - What's the difference?
relevance | expediency |
The property or state of being relevant or pertinent.
(uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.
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(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 relevance and expediency
is that relevance is the property or state of being relevant or pertinent 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.relevance
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Alternative forms
* relevancy (much less common)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* bearing * pertinenceAntonyms
* irrelevanceExternal links
* * ----expediency
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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.