'Expedience' definitions:
Definition of 'expedience'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being suited to the end in view [syn: expedience, expediency] [ant: inexpedience, inexpediency]
noun
Taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others [syn: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking, expedience]
Definition of 'Expedience'
From: GCIDE
- Expedience \Ex*pe"di*ence\, Expediency \Ex*pe"di*en*cy\,, n.
- 1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; -- sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude or principle. [1913 Webster]
- Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. --Cogan. [1913 Webster]
- To determine concerning the expedience of action. --Sharp. [1913 Webster]
- Much declamation may be heard in the present day against expediency, as if it were not the proper object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were only pursued by the unprincipled. --Whately. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Making hither with all due expedience. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Forwarding this dear expedience. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'expedience'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advantageousness,
- agreeableness,
- appropriateness,
- auspiciousness,
- beneficialness,
- benevolence,
- benignity,
- chargedness,
- class,
- cogency,
- convenience,
- criticality,
- crucialness,
- desert,
- excellence,
- fairness,
- favorableness,
- felicitousness,
- fineness,
- first-rateness,
- fitness,
- fittingness,
- goodliness,
- goodness,
- grace,
- healthiness,
- helpfulness,
- kindness,
- loadedness,
- meetness,
- merit,
- niceness,
- opportuneness,
- pleasantness,
- pregnancy,
- profitableness,
- propitiousness,
- propriety,
- quality,
- rewardingness,
- rightness,
- ripeness,
- seasonableness,
- skillfulness,
- soundness,
- suitability,
- superiority,
- timeliness,
- usefulness,
- validity,
- value,
- virtue,
- virtuousness,
- wholeness,
- worth