expediences

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appropriateness; worth n.
resource n.

NOUN

appropriateness; worth

Synonyms

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advantage advantageousness advisability appositeness aptness benefit convenience desirability effectiveness efficiency fitness helpfulness judiciousness meetness opportunism opportunity order policy practicality pragmatism profitability profitableness properness propitiousness propriety prudence rightness suitability usefulness utilitarianism utility

Antonyms

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disadvantage inappropriateness

NOUN

resource

Synonyms

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Band-Aid contrivance design device dodge easy way out gimmick makeshift maneuver means measure method recourse resort scheme shift step stopgap stratagem strategy substitute surrogate tactic trick

Antonyms

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disadvantage inappropriateness

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expediences

Peace_2_All @ --- Can't speak for all the atheists'... but I'm curious... "expediences" such as?

From Time ● Apr. 29, 2013

They went about balancing expediences, plausibilities; gathering votes, advices; they never were alone with the truth of a thing at all.—Cromwell’s prayers were likely to be ‘eloquent,’ and much more than that.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Indeed, they are the results of various necessities and expediences.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Falsehood slopes into truth through cunning expediences and white lies.

From My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

He is very happy in contriving expediences, and evinces considerable wit in the conception, for instance, of Yussuf the water-carrier.

From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat