expedience

1. 1.

   the quality of being suited to the end in view

   Synonymsexpediency

   Antonymsinexpedience

   Broaderadvantage
2. 2.

   taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others

   Synonymsopportunismself-interestself-seeking

   Broaderselfishness

Other forms of expedience

plural

expediences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about expedience

What does expedience mean?

expedience means "the quality of being suited to the end in view". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in expedience?

expedience has 4 syllables: ex-pe-di-ence. The stress falls on "pe". In IPA it is /ɪkˈspidiəns/.

What is another word for expedience?

Close synonyms include expediency, opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of expedience?

The recorded antonyms are inexpedience.

Is expedience a common word?

expedience is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.