UTILITARIANISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does utilitarianism mean? 

• UTILITARIANISM (noun)
  The noun UTILITARIANISM has 1 sense:

1. doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number

  Familiarity information: UTILITARIANISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UTILITARIANISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("utilitarianism" is a kind of...):

doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)