practicality
practicality noun: the state of being practical or feasible.
Noun
practicality (countable and uncountable, plural practicalities)
- The state of being practical or feasible.
- The practical aspect of something.
- 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.2012, Carl Freedman, The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power
practicality meaning in Hindi and Malayalam
practicality in Hindi
- state of being practical or feasible
- क्रियात्मकता kriyātmaktā
practicality in Malayalam
- viability, feasibility, practicability
- പ്രയോഗക്ഷമത, പ്രായോഗികത, സാദ്ധ്യത, ശക്യത, പ്രയോഗസമർത്ഥത, സാധകം
- functionalism, functionality, serviceability
- നിർവ്വഹണക്ഷമത, പ്രവർത്തനക്ഷമത, സേവനക്ഷമത, പ്രയോഗക്ഷമത, പ്രയോജനക്ഷമത, ഉപയോഗക്ഷമത
- (common) sense, realism, pragmatism
- സാമാന്യബുദ്ധി, വിവേകം, ഔചിത്യബോധം, യഥാർത്ഥ്യബോധം, യാഥാർത്ഥ്യം, പ്രായോഗികത
- practical details, nitty gritty, nuts and bolts
- വിശദവിവരങ്ങൾ, വിശദാംശങ്ങൾ, പ്രായോഗികവശങ്ങൾ, വസ്തുതകൾ, അടിസ്ഥാന പ്രയോഗതത്ത്വങ്ങൾ
Examples of practicality in a sentence
- He wanted Carol as a friend with her practicality, serenity and unsmothering sympathy.
- These questions define our three senses of ‘origins’ in a reverse order, namely historicity, practicality and theoreticity.
- Along with the good planners there are lots of wild-eyed visionaries who don’t relate ideas to real-life practicalities.
Synonyms of practicality
Antonyms
Forms of practicality
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Origin of practicality
From practical + -ity.
Words formed from practicality
Questions about practicality
- What does practicality mean?
- Practicality means the state of being practical or feasible.
- What is practicality in Hindi?
- Practicality in Hindi is क्रियात्मकता (kriyātmaktā). See Practicality meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is practicality?
- Practicality is a noun.
- What is the plural of practicality?
- The plural of practicality is practicalities.
Words near practicality in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: practicality (page history and authors); practicality (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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