Definition of expediential in English:
expediential
adjective ɪkˌspiːdɪˈɛnʃ(ə)lɛkˌspiːdɪˈɛnʃ(ə)l
Involving or based on what is expedient.
Example sentencesExamples
- Action is an effort to produce certain consequences and is therefore essentially expediential.
- He based his case on two arguments, one scriptural and one expediential.
- Human beings construct their politics in terms of pragmatic, expediential goals.
- Timing itself is critical: a war or violent event in itself enhances the expediental ethic and leads to callousness.
- Fontinell deplores the misconceptions of Pragmatism which characterize the movement as “a kind of unfeeling, unprincipled, non-idealistic, expediental response to human problems”.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from expedient + -ial.