Word Meanings - INSTRUMENTALNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond.

Related words: (words related to INSTRUMENTALNESS)

• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• AGENCY
  1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between
• USEFULNESS
  The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Addison. Syn. -- Utility; value; profit. See Utility.
• INTERAGENCY
  Intermediate agency.
• SUBAGENCY
  A subordinate agency.
• COAGENCY
  Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.