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practicality
[ prak-ti-kal-i-tee ]
noun
- the quality of being adapted or designed for actual use; usefulness or convenience:
Your home furniture choices should be based on practicality, durability, and beauty.
- interest in or inclination toward actual work or activity as opposed to theories or ideas:
My mother was an entrepreneur whose tremendous vision, teamed with her practicality, “moved mountains.”
- a detail or consideration involved in putting something into action:
She talked with culinary students about their dreams as well as the practicalities of launching a food business.
- the constraints or demands of real life or actual implementation:
Economy and practicality dictate that we can't save every green space from development.
- the quality or fact of relating to actual activity, especially ordinary or everyday activity:
I appreciate the real-world practicality of the question, “ does it mean to be a father?”
Other Word Forms
- ԴDz··پ···ٲ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of practicality1
Example Sentences
The Supreme Court's decision prompts lots of questions about the practicalities of what it concluded – for organisations large and small, public and private, trans people and others.
Meanwhile, calls for banning "junk food" from the program raise difficult questions about personal choice, public health and the practicalities of enforcement.
They questioned the practicality and the fairness of having a citizenship rule that applied at least temporarily in some parts of the country but not others.
In Frederic Vasseur, they have a team boss who has given the team a more international outlook, and is very matter-of-fact and focused on practicality.
But practicality seems to be what many Californians are looking for in their next governor.
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