EXPEDIENCY

expedience, expediency

(noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Noun

expediency (countable and uncountable, plural expediencies)

(uncountable) The quality of being fit or suitable to effect some desired end or the purpose intended; suitability for particular circumstance or situation.

(uncountable) Pursuit of the course of action that brings the desired effect even if it is unjust or unprincipled.

(obsolete) Haste; dispatch.

(countable) An expedient.

Synonyms

• (suitability for a circumstance): expedience

• (haste, dispatch): expedience

Source: Wiktionary

Ex*pe"di*ence, Ex*pe"di*en*cy,, n.

1. 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. Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice. Cogan. To determine concerning the expedience of action. Sharp. 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. Whately.

2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.] Making hither with all due expedience. Shak.

3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.] Forwarding this dear expedience. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition