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Utility vs Pleasures - What's the difference?

utility | pleasures |

As nouns the difference between utility and pleasures

is that utility is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness while pleasures is plural of pleasure.

As a verb pleasures is

third-person singular of pleasure.

utility

English

Noun

(utilities)
  • The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
  • Something that is useful.
  • (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
  • (business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or , the securities of such a provider.
  • (computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
  • I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.
  • (sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
  • Synonyms

    * (state of being useful) usefulness, * See also

    pleasures

    English

    Noun

    (head) (p)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (pleasure)
  • Anagrams

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