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

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

Because, when love flames beyond duty and honour and all expediences, Lysbet, some one a little cold water ought to throw.

From The Maid of Maiden Lane by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Falsehood slopes into truth through cunning expediences and white lies.

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

Thus it makes the individual the center of his own universe, and dissolves moral principles into a choice of expediences.

From The Acquisitive Society by R. H. Tawney