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Utile vs Hedon - What's the difference?

utile | hedon | Synonyms |

Hedon is a synonym of utile.



In economics terms the difference between utile and hedon

is that utile is a theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction while hedon is a unit of pleasure used to theoretically weigh people's happiness.

As an adjective utile

is useful.

utile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Useful.
  • * 1969 , , Ada or Ardor , 2011 Penguin edition, p. 16:
    • technologists (the so-called Eggheads) all over the world were trying to make publicly utile and commercially rewarding the extremely elaborate and still very expensive, hydrodynamic telephones and other miserable gadgets [...].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (economics) A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.
  • * 2002 , Louis Groarke, The Good Rebel: Understanding Freedom and Morality , ISBN 9780838638996, p. 29 (Google preview):
    • Rational agents always maximize the number of utiles' procured; that is, they will always choose those outcomes which promise to produce the most ' utiles .
  • * 2006 , " Economic Roundup Autumn 2006," www.treasury.gov.au (Australian Government Treasury) (retrieved 20 Oct 2013):
    • [T]he ‘happiness utile ’ does not exist, at least not yet.

    Synonyms

    * (unit of satisfaction) hedon, util

    Related terms

    * utility

    Anagrams

    * ----

    hedon

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (economics, ) A unit of pleasure used to theoretically weigh people's happiness.
  • *

    • Synonyms

    * utile, util

    Antonyms

    * dolor