practicality.

Suitability for actual use or execution under relevant conditions.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• practicality of a proposal
• assess practicality

On the page

The practicality of the proposal depended on resources the summary omitted.

The panel assessed practicality separately from desirability.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: moderately common.