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utilitarianism

u·til·i·tar·i·an·ism

utilitarianism

 
pronunciation:
yu tI lih teI ri nih zm
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part of speech: noun
definition: the nineteenth-century ethical doctrine that usefulness is the greatest good and that human action should tend to produce the greatest good or happiness for the greatest number of people.
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