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What is the noun for instrumentality?

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instrument
  1. A device used to produce music.
  2. A means or agency for achieving an effect.
  3. A measuring or displaying device.
  4. A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
  5. (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
  6. (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “It's a simple stone that has become a tool, an instrument employed for drawing marks.”
      “Authors debated the idea of language and literature as an instrument of social change.”
      “The instrument is able to measure isotopes at the individual atom level and does so by generating millions of volts of electricity.”
instrumentality
  1. (uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.
  2. (countable, law) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
  3. (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It has been achieved largely through the instrumentality of parliamentary democracy.”
      “The most important secondary consequence was the spread of instrumentality beyond the hand and the body.”
      “The modelling of all human behaviour on the contractualism and instrumentality of the market corrodes any politics of solidarity and citizenship.”
instrumental
  1. (grammar) The instrumental case.
  2. (music) A composition written or performed without lyrics, sometimes using a lead instrument to replace vocals.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It's a classic instrumental that was once rearranged by Muscle Shoals session guitarist Pete Carr.”
instrumentalism
  1. (philosophy) In the philosophy of science, the view that concepts and theories are merely useful instruments whose worth is measured not by whether the concepts and theories are true or false (or correctly depict reality), but how effective they are in explaining and predicting phenomena.
  2. Examples:
    1. “And that verse breaks down to a bridge of more spacey instrumentalism and a bass drum keeping time to spastically bending strings.”
      “Science, for all its instrumentalism, is not, at its best, in conflict with aesthetics but in conspiracy with it.”
      “Plato's idealism regarding perfect Forms is linked to a type of instrumentalism.”
instrumentalisation
  1. (philosophy) The treatment of an idea as an instrument that functions as a guide to action.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But if there are no identities, why, in that case, is the struggle for power always a vehicle for instrumentalisation?”
instrumentalization
  1. Alternative spelling of instrumentalisation
instrumentarium
instrumentalizer
  1. One who instrumentalizes.
instrumentalizations
instrumentalisations
instrumentalizers
  1. plural of instrumentalizer
instrumentaria
  1. plural of instrumentarium
instrumentalisms
  1. plural of instrumentalism
instrumentalities
  1. plural of instrumentality
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In the race of improvement all other inventions and instrumentalities may be superceded.”
      “Democracy was imperiled when those instrumentalities failed.”
      “Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities.”
instrumentals
  1. plural of instrumental
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Overall, I found the vocals and the instrumentals to be good, just not great.”
      “If the songs had simply been instrumentals, the album would not have suffered.”
      “We spent over a fortnight in the studio, going through vocals and instrumentals.”
instruments
  1. plural of instrument
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Other instruments used included rattles, whistles, flutes, mouth harps, and stringed-instruments constructed with a bow and resonator.”
      “Traditional musical instruments included rattles, which were prominent in ceremonies.”
      “It was based on polar coordinates whereas earlier instruments were based on cartesian coordinates.”
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