betterness

betterness

(ˈbɛtənəs)
n
1. the quality of being superior
2. the fineness (beyond standard) of precious metals
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However, as we thrive to betterness, we become more dependent on a "Wall-E" type of environment.
In order to resolve this issue government have to take special steps and make some new policies, not just for their benefit but for the poor people and for the betterness of country.
Then comes McDonald's, which is leaps and bounds ahead of Wendy's, but whose ice cream machine, even in 98 degrees of summer, is only working for a third of that time (the machine, as well as the drive-thru window), for about Sh200 ndash cold and creamy betterness.
However, a series of impossibility theorems has shown that the only way to avoid this is to take on other counterintuitive implications, be they formal problems (like cyclic betterness orderings) or substantive problems (like preferring adding people with negative well-being to adding people with positive well-being).
(iii) 'betterness' was to be achieved synergistically, through every possible avenue, with every necessary resource, in every possible combination; and, most significantly,
Bishop climbs a ladder of metaphor after metaphor in the collection's final poem, "Notes Toward Basic Betterness"--over half a dozen in only thirteen couplets--in a desperate attempt to conceptualize recovery.
Armed with her buzzwords - champagne and celebrities - she's out to take 'Betterness' to a global audience.
"Consumers today are not looking for perfection, but they want an authentic commitment to betterness with honesty about wins and failures along the way."
On the contrary, the "betterness" of this interpretation is a function of the interpretation it has displaced.
It means that each relation, no matter what its domain is made of, shows mixed aspects of equality or similarity and a means of "betterness" or preference.
Both versions of rational choice presuppose the consequentialist assumption of some betterness relation (--is better than--) as the key to rational decision (Broome 1992).
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