PRACTICALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does practicality mean? 

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

1. concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRACTICALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

usefulness; utility (the quality of being of practical use)

Attribute:

practical (concerned with actual use or practice)

impractical (not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "practicality"):

functionality (capable of serving a purpose well)

viability (capable of being done in a practical and useful way)

sensibleness (the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment)

pragmatism; realism (the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth)

Antonym:

impracticality (concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use)

Derivation:

practical (concerned with actual use or practice)

practical (guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory)

 Context examples 

This is a day that combines your imagination (Neptune) with practicality and profit (Saturn).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Nevertheless, Saturn will keep you realistic about how much you can handle in this deal—and how much you can repay—and your practicality will lead you to success.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

She wanted her life shaped now, immediately—and the decision must be made by some force—of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality—that was close at hand.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)