expedience

English

Etymology

From Old French expedience, from Late Latin expedientia, from Latin expediens.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛk.spiː.dɪ.əns/

Noun

expedience (countable and uncountable, plural expediences)

(uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; propriety or advisability under the particular circumstances of a case.
- Sharp
  to determine concerning the expedience of action
Speed, haste or urgency.
- Shakespeare
  making hither with all due expedience
- 2008, Thomas Dyja, Walter White: The Dilemma of Black Identity in America (page 178)
  The sense of expedience that allowed White to cut deals and keep moving had made many, mistakenly, see him as shallow or, worse, unprincipled.
Something that is expedient.
(obsolete) An expedition; enterprise; adventure.
- Shakespeare
  forwarding this dear expedience

Synonyms

(fitness or suitableness): expediency
(speed, haste or urgency): expediency

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Translations

quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end

Bulgarian: удобство (bg) n (udobstvo), целесъобразност (bg) f (celesǎobraznost)

Dutch: toepasselijkheid f, passendheid f, gepastheid f

speed, haste or urgency

Dutch: haast (nl) c, spoed (nl) m

something that is expedient

References

OED2
expediency in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
expedience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
expedience at OneLook Dictionary Search
“expedience” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

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