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Definition of Nonutilitarian
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonutilitarian
Literary usage of Nonutilitarian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transnational Social Policies: The New Development Challenges of Globalization by Daniel A. Morales-Gómez (1999)
"For those who think that nonutilitarian values and goals play a significant role
in policy change, international market integration is also desirable from ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Unlike Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands, it has not ventured into the
prestigious, but costly and nonutilitarian, field of radio astronomy, ..."
3. The Business of Commerce: Examining an Honorable Profession by James Chesher, Tibor R. Machan (1999)
"Sophisticated utilitarians will nearly always promote nearly the same public
policies as their nonutilitarian critics, mainly because they will argue that ..."
4. Defining Social Acceptability in Ecosystem Management: A Workshop Proceeding edited by Mark W. Brunson, Linda E. Kruger, Catherine B. Tyler, Susan A. Schroeder (1997)
"This elite position, however, is now being challenged by another non- consumptive,
nonutilitarian "good," namely biodiversity. Like aesthetics, biodiversity ..."
5. Ideals of America: Analyses of the Guiding Motives of Contemporary American by City Club of Chicago (1919)
"While such an investigator should never be handicapped by the utilitarian motive,
at the same time he should never be perversely nonutilitarian. ..."
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