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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or in the interests of utility.
- adjective Exhibiting or stressing utility over other values; practical.
- adjective Of, characterized by, or advocating utilitarianism.
- noun One who advocates or practices utilitarianism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting in or pertaining to utility; having regard to utility rather than beauty and the like; specifically, making the greatest good of the greatest number the prime consideration. See the quotations.
- noun One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.
- adjective Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; �iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, or marked by a sordid spirit.
- adjective Of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of or relating to
utility - adjective
practical andfunctional , not just forshow . - noun Someone who
practices oradvocates utilitarianism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a useful function
- noun someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility
- adjective having utility often to the exclusion of values
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Guy Gavriel Kay approached the topic from what he termed a utilitarian perspective of the author who uses time as one of many tools in the authorial toolbox for providing narrative solutions.
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Guy Gavriel Kay approached the topic from what he termed a utilitarian perspective of the author who uses time as one of many tools in the authorial toolbox for providing narrative solutions.
ICFA 2009, When Time is Out of Joint: Alternative Times in Fantasy Panel 2009
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I probably shouldn't have expressed my objection in utilitarian "does it do more harm than good?" terms.
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While the period of interference from political totalitarianism has passed, is it not the case that frequently, across the globe, the exercise of reason and academic research are – subtly and not so subtly – constrained to bow to the pressures of ideological interest groups and the lure of short-term utilitarian or pragmatic goals?
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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While the period of interference from political totalitarianism has passed, is it not the case that frequently, across the globe, the exercise of reason and academic research are – subtly and not so subtly – constrained to bow to the pressures of ideological interest groups and the lure of short-term utilitarian or pragmatic goals?
Landmark Address on the Responsibilities of Universities Freedom has a purpose 2009
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Mill famously tried to accomodate this fact within utilitarian structure with a doctrine of “higher” and “lower” pleasures, though not especially convincingly.
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While the period of interference from political totalitarianism has passed, is it not the case that frequently, across the globe, the exercise of reason and academic research are – subtly and not so subtly – constrained to bow to the pressures of ideological interest groups and the lure of short-term utilitarian or pragmatic goals?
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He frames his theory in utilitarian terms: because women tend to be more group-oriented, and to be paid less, we may expect them to favour a political system that taxes heavily and spends the taxes on communal improvements, such as crèches or police patrols.
December 25th, 2005 2005
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According to most legal scholars, the writers of the Constitution viewed copyright in utilitarian terms.
The Heavenly Jukebox 2000
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According to most legal scholars, the writers of the Constitution viewed copyright in utilitarian terms.
The Heavenly Jukebox 2000
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- Cyrenaic
- Eleatic
- Epicurean
- Megarian
- Stoic
- advantageous
- animist
- animistic
- appropriate
- atomistic
- banausic
- beneficial
- breadwinning
- businesslike
- commercial
- commodious
- cosmotheistic
- down-to-earth
- eclectic
- empirical
- employable
- eudaemonistic
- existential
- expedient
- fitting
- functional
- good for
- hard
- hedonic
- hedonist
- hedonistic
- helpful
- humanist
- humanistic
- idealistic
- instrumentalist
- materialistic
- matter-of-fact
- mechanistic
- metaphysical
- moneymaking
- monistic
- naturalistic
- nominalist
- of general utility
- of help
- of service
- of use
- panlogistical
- pantheistic
- positivist
- positivistic
- practical
- pragmatic
- pragmatical
- pragmatist
- proper
- prosaic
- rationalistic
- realist
- realistic
- scholastic
- sensationalistic
- serviceable
- syncretistic
- theistic
- transcendentalist
- transcendentalistic
- unidealistic
- unromantic
- useful
- vitalistic
- voluntarist
- voluntaristic
- workaday
- workday
- working
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- Marion
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- agrarian
- authoritarian
- barbarian
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- carrion
- centenarian
- clarion
- contrarian
- disciplinarian
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- libertarian
- librarian
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- merion
- nonsectarian
- octogenarian
- ovarian
- parliamentarian
- planarian
- proletarian
- sectarian
- seminarian
- septuagenarian
- totalitarian
- unitarian
- vegetarian
- veterinarian
sakhalinskii commented on the word utilitarian
"I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise." - Peter Singer
July 30, 2008