practicality

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English practical

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-ts

Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂tsder.

Latin -itās

Old French -itebor.

Middle English -ite

English -ity

English practicality

From practical + -ity.

Noun

practicality (countable and uncountable, plural practicalities)

1. (uncountable) The state of being practical or feasible.
2. (countable, usually in the plural) The practical aspect of something.
   • 2012, Carl Freedman, The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power‎^[1]:

     They might acknowledge that such practicalities are necessary to sustain life itself, but they would immediately add that culture gives life a value beyond the scope of the merely practical.

Synonyms

• practicalness

Antonyms

• impracticality

Derived terms

• unpracticality

Translations

state of being practical or feasible

• Bulgarian: практичност (bg) f (praktičnost)
• Czech: praktičnost (cs) f
• Finnish: käytännöllisyys (fi)
• French: praticité (fr) f
• German: Machbarkeit (de) f, Durchführbarkeit (de) f, Umsetzbarkeit f, Praxistauglichkeit f
• Greek: πρακτικότητα (el) (praktikótita)
• Hindi: क्रियात्मकता f (kriyātmaktā)
• Polish: praktyczność (pl) f
• Portuguese: praticidade f
• Russian: практи́чность (ru) f (praktíčnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: praktičnost (sh) f
• Spanish: factibilidad (es) f, sentido práctico m, practicidad f
• Ukrainian: практи́чність (uk) f (praktýčnistʹ)