noun
instrumentality
Instrumentality (noun) means the fact of being useful as a means of achieving something.
noun
1
The fact of being useful as a means of achieving something.
"In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the 'great design' which he wished to establish through her instrumentality."
— William James, Lectures XIV and XV: The Value of Saintliness (1902)
2
A thing used as a means of doing something.
"God works by instrumentalities, and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance."
— Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse (1914)
3
A government body set up to carry out a particular job.
"Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the Alien Property Custodian and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work."
— Title 17 of the United States Code, §104A(a)(2) (1994)
4
(grammar) The property of a word being in the instrumental case.
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What is the meaning of instrumentality?
"instrumentality" (noun) means the fact of being useful as a means of achieving something.
What is another word for instrumentality?
Other words for "instrumentality" include instrumentation, means.
What are the different meanings of instrumentality?
"instrumentality" has 3 main meanings: 1. The fact of being useful as a means of achieving something; 2. A thing used as a means of doing something; 3. A government body set up to carry out a particular job.
