Etymology

utilitarian

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Today it means: Of or relating to utility. Full definition →

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From utility + -arian. Coined by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham as early as 1781, and popularized by his student John Stuart Mill, who mistakenly attributed the term to John Galt.

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