instrumentality
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- noun
- /ˌɪnstrəˈmɛntəlɪti/
- Formal
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instrumentalidad
- Education can serve as an instrumentality for social change and personal development.
- instrumentality and valuing
- goal and instrumentality
- instrumentality test
What concern is it of yours by whose instrumentality?
- What concern is it of yours by whose instrumentality?
- That's the that's the despotism of this of, of, of mistaking the intrinsic good for the instrumentality.
Examples
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Both the Patterson test and the instrumentality test serve the same policy objectives.
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Are students' perceived instrumentality scores related to their intrinsic and extrinsic valuing of academic tasks?
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Also consistent with theory, performance goals were found to have no reliable relationship to perceived instrumentality.
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Granting the subjects three of their five preferences was intended to provide them with a sense of instrumentality.
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The second argument, posed against two wills, is based on the notion of instrumentality.
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"Everything that touches the immigrant's life is an instrumentality for his Americanization or the reverse." 28
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Our belief that the intrinsic value of a task is at least in part dependent on perceptions of instrumentality stems from two sources.
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As expected, learning goal and instrumentality scores were positively correlated with scores on intrinsic and extrinsic valuing, and with each other.
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The new software became an important instrumentality for improving productivity in the office.
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Effective communication is an instrumentality that helps teams collaborate and achieve their goals.
Synonyms
842
2.7
A method or tool used to achieve something
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4.0
A method or thing used by someone to achieve a goal, for example education
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5.5
A person or thing used by someone to carry out their plans
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Surface Forms
Morphology
instrumentality = instrumental (transparent) = instrument + al + ity
Formed via 'instrument' -> 'instrumental' -> '-ity', yielding the abstract noun 'state or quality of being a means', which is directly derivable from the base.
Etymology
Instrumentality comes from the same root as instrument, a word that meant 'tool', so it describes a 'tool' or 'means' used to do or achieve something.