expedience

• HYPHEN: ex=pe=di=ence

CIDE DICTIONARY

expedience, n. 

•  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."  [1913 Webster]

  "To determine concerning the expedience of action."  [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."  [1913 Webster]
•  Expedition; haste; dispatch.  [1913 Webster]

  "Making hither with all due expedience."  [1913 Webster]
•  An expedition; enterprise; adventure.  [1913 Webster]

  "Forwarding this dear expedience."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

expedience

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

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expedience

Expedience

N expedience, expediency, desirableness, desirability, fitness, utility, propriety, opportunism, advantage, high time, expedient, desirable, advisable, acceptable, convenient, worth while, meet, fit, fitting, due, proper, eligible, seemly, becoming, befitting, opportune, in loco, suitable, applicable, in the right place, conveniently, operae pretium est.