instrumentality

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=stru=men=tal=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

instrumentality, n. 

 The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.  [1913 Webster]
"The instrumentality of faith in justification."  [1913 Webster]
"The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense in a new instrumentality."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

instrumentality

agency, agent, channel, device, energy, expedient, force, going between, instrument, instrumentation, intermediation, machinery, mean, mechanism, mediation, medium, might, ministry, organ, power, recourse, resort, service, vehicle

ROGET THESAURUS

instrumentality

Instrumentality

N instrumentality, aid, subservience, subserviency, mediation, intervention, medium, intermedium, vehicle, hand, agency, minister, handmaid, midwife, accoucheur, accoucheuse, obstetrician, gobetween, cat's-paw, stepping-stone, opener, key, master key, passkey, latchkey, open sesame, passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct, password, instrument, expedient, means, instrumental, useful, ministerial, subservient, mediatorial, intermediate, intervening, conducive, through, by, per, whereby, thereby, hereby, by the agency of, by dint of, by virtue of, in virtue of, through the medium of, along with, on the shoulders of, by means of, by the aid of, with the aid of, per fas et nefas, by fair means or foul, somehow, somehow or other, by hook or by crook.

Agency

N agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play, interworking, interaction, procurement, causation, instrumentality, influence, action, modus operandi, quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power, home stroke, operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual, at work, on foot, acting, in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise, acted upon, wrought upon, by the agency of through, by means of, I myself must mix with action lest I wither by des.