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UTILITARIANISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("utilitarianism" is a kind of...):
doctrine; ism; philosophical system; philosophy; school of thought (a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school)
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