practicality
pronunciation
How to pronounce practicality in British English:
UK [ˌpræktɪˈkæləti]
How to pronounce practicality in American English:
US [ˌpræktɪˈkælətɪ]
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- Noun:
- concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities
Word Origin
- practicality (n.)
- 1809, from practical + -ity. Related: Practicalities.
Example
- 1. An unhappy mixture of ideology and practicality .
- 2. A similar combination of vision and practicality is needed now in response to a very different challenge the risk of a fundamental change in the earth 's climate caused by emissions of carbon .
- 3. Practicality also played a part .
- 4. But practicality is hardly a defining characteristic .
- 5. Without him , the following invention would have had considerably less practicality .