Definition for Efficiency:

• Effectual agency or power; the state of being competent.

Synonyms for Efficiency:

• n.

  •
  • condo,
  • bachelor apartment,
  • accommodation,
  • accommodations,
  • competence,
  • condominium,
  • apartment,
  • digs,
  • bedsit,
  • duplex,
  • bachelor pad.
  •
  • yield,
  • elasticity,
  • adaptability,
  • adequacy,
  • productivity,
  • user-friendliness,
  • practicality,
  • thoroughness,
  • value,
  • response,
  • worth,
  • performance,
  • productiveness,
  • powerfulness.
  •
  • industrious,
  • thrive.
  •
  • affect.
  •accuracy (noun)
  • de-finiteness,
  • faultlessnesses,
  • de finitudes,
  • definitivenesses,
  • definitudes,
  • de finitenesses,
  • de-finitude,
  • definitenesses,
  • skillfulnesses,
  • de finitude,
  • de-finitudes,
  • de finiteness,
  • de-finitenesses.
  •adeptness, effectiveness (noun)
  • power,
  • suitability,
  • know-how,
  • resourcefulness,
  • abundance,
  • talent,
  • quantity,
  • readiness,
  • economy,
  • faculty,
  • address,
  • completeness,
  • competency,
  • suitableness,
  • skill,
  • expertise.
  •agency (noun)
  • instrument,
  • influences.
  •capability (noun)
  • qualifiednesses.
  •capacity (noun)
  • the good,
  • what it take,
  • what takes,
  • up it,
  • what take.
  •cognition (noun)
  • efficiency.
  •ease (noun)
  • ex-pertness,
  • un affectednesses,
  • ex-pertnesses,
  • un-reservedness,
  • relaxednesses,
  • child play,
  • unaffectednesses,
  • dis-patch,
  • insouciances,
  • dis patches,
  • un constraint,
  • smooth sailings,
  • childs play,
  • un affectedness,
  • un-affectedness,
  • dis patch,
  • un constraints,
  • un-affectednesses,
  • un-reservednesses,
  • un reservednesses,
  • ex pertnesses,
  • un-constraint,
  • un-constraints,
  • unreservednesses,
  • ex pertness,
  • dis-patches,
  • un reservedness,
  • unconstraints,
  • easygoingnesses.
  •effect (noun)
  • imprint,
  • tenor.
  •effectiveness (noun)
  • validnesses.
  •efficiency (noun)
  • organization,
  • effectiveness,
  • Skilfulness.
  •energy (noun)
  • get-up-and-go,
  • initiative,
  • operativeness,
  • sprightliness,
  • peppiness,
  • birr,
  • toughness,
  • juice.
  •expedience (noun)
  • opportunity,
  • timeliness,
  • aptness,
  • fitness,
  • propriety,
  • well-timedness,
  • convenience.
  •expediency/expedience (noun)
  • meetnesses,
  • profitablenesses,
  • Utilitarianisms,
  • judiciousnesses,
  • pragmatisms,
  • propitiousnesses,
  • advantageousnesses.
  •facility (noun)
  • fluency,
  • smoothness,
  • adroitness,
  • effortlessness,
  • handiness,
  • Dexterousness,
  • deftness.
  •forte (noun)
  • ablenesses.
  •get-up-and-go (noun)
  • get up and go,
  • Oes,
  • o.
  •proficiency (noun)
  • head way,
  • head-way.
  •responsibility (noun)
  • re-liabilities,
  • up-rightnesses,
  • re liability,
  • up rightnesses,
  • up-rightness,
  • dependablenesses,
  • sensiblenesses,
  • up rightness,
  • re liabilities,
  • levelheadednesses,
  • trustinesses,
  • capablenesses,
  • re-liability.
  •utility (noun)
  • serviceability.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • efficaciousness,
  • effectualness,
  • usability,
  • utility,
  • synergy,
  • effectuality.
  •
  • force,
  • influence.
  •high-speed
  • gear.

Paraphrases for Efficiency:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    effectiveness.
  • Verb, past tense
    effectiveness.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    cost-efficiency.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    inefficiency, cost-efficiency.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    inefficient, ineffective, cost-effectiveness.
  • Proper noun, singular
    priorities, results, employees, cost-effectiveness, efficiently.
  • Noun, plural
    efficient.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    data, usefulness, rationality, output, eco-efficiency, streamlining, cost-effectiveness, utilization, insufficiency, energy-saving, rationalization, ineffectiveness, inadequacy, expediency.
  • Adverb
    efficiently.
  • Verb, past tense
    implemented.

• Other Related

  • Determiner
    efficient.
  • Adjective
    efficient, performance, effectiveness, efficacious.
  • Proper noun, singular
    benefits, efficient, performance.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    efficient, performance, effectiveness, efficacious, benefit.
  • Adverb
    effectiveness.
  • Verb, past tense
    efficacious.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    effectiveness.
  • Verb, base form
    efficient, effectiveness.

Antonyms for Efficiency:

• n.

  • adeptness, effectiveness
    weakness, helplessness, incompetence, inefficiency, lack, ineptness, inadequacy, incapacity, ineffectiveness, idleness, incapability, inability, ignorance, disability, impotence.
  • Other antonyms:
    imbecility, awkwardness, inaptitude, feebleness, ineffectuality, dulness, stupidity, inadequateness, ineffectualness, maladroitness.

Efficiency Sentence Examples:

• Now efficiency is all that we ask of a railroad, efficiency is half at least of what we ask of journalism; but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature.

• Would that it were more common for poets openly to defy society's demands for efficiency, as certain children and malaperts of the poetic world have done!

Homophones for Efficiency:

• Epigenesis, efficaciousness, Ephesians.

Hypernym for Efficiency:

• n.

  • cognition
    economy.
  • linkdef
    figure of merit.

Hyponym for Efficiency:

• n.

  • cognition
    skillfulness.
  • linkdef
    ratio.