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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities [ant: impracticality]

Merriam Webster's

noun see practical I

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Practicality Prac`ti*cal"i*ty, n. The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(practicalities) The practicalities of a situation are the practical aspects of it, as opposed to its theoretical aspects. Decisions about your children should be based on the practicalities of everyday life. N-VAR: usu with supp, oft N of n

Moby Thesaurus

achievability, actability, adaptability, applicability, attainability, availability, balance, common sense, compassability, convenience, cool head, coolheadedness, coolness, down-to-earthness, ductility, due sense of, earthiness, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, feasibility, flexibility, freedom from illusion, functionality, good sense, handiness, hardheadedness, helpfulness, horse sense, lack of feelings, level head, levelheadedness, malleability, manageability, manageableness, maneuverability, matter-of-factness, negotiability, operability, performability, plain sense, pliability, pliancy, positivism, practicability, practical mind, practical utility, practical wisdom, practical-mindedness, practicalness, pragmaticism, pragmatism, profitability, rationality, realism, realizability, reason, reasonableness, saneness, sanity, scientism, secularism, sense, sensibleness, serviceability, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobriety, soundness, superability, surmountability, unidealism, unromanticalness, unsentimentality, untroublesomeness, usability, use, usefulness, utility, utilizability, viability, viableness, wieldableness, wieldiness, workability, worldliness