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I have to admit I use 'functionality' at work. I had thought about it and decided that, although it sounds like an empty jargon word, in fact it succinctly fills a place. It means 'the way it works' or more precisely 'all the different things it does' or 'the collective of its functions'. Any suggestions for better one-word ways of saying this?
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Hmmm. We use "functionality" to describe the functions of software objects. Probably a bit twee, but, as NicholasW of the puzzled "what else?" in relation to nuking food in a microwave has pointed out, it fulfils a definite purpose.
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Not trying to be a smart*ss, but how about good old "use" (the noun) instead of functionality?
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'Use' is too general to be a synonym. If someone said they had a product and wanted to increase its use, that could mean:
-- sell it to more users
-- make it go faster
-- use it more times a day
-- create new ways to use it (increase its functionality)
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You're going to get a lot of these words that seem at first blush to be empty neologisms but which fulfill a definite need. Proactive is one. You could say active but that doesn't stress the idea that you are taking an action with the specific intent of forestalling some undesired condition that reactive has to wait for before it gets to be used.
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Shame on you CapK!Answer the question! 
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Answer the question! No. 
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Faldage wrote : You're going to get a lot of these words
Harumph. Does it bother anyone else when perfetly good words are lengthened for no apparent reason or purpose?
Ex : UPcoming and ONgoing
Why not just comimg and continuing?
Doesn't anyone read Strunk and White anymore ?
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