Engineers weighed the practicality of solar panels against their initial cost when designing the remote research station.
在设计偏远的研究站时，工程师们权衡了太阳能电池板的实用性与初始成本。
Which choice best defines “practicality”?
A — The quality of being practical or useful. “practicality” means the quality of being practical or useful.
Which word means “the quality of being practical or useful”?
C — practicality. “practicality” means the quality of being practical or useful.
practicality — the quality of being practical or useful. In Chinese: 实用性，实际性.
practicality is pronounced /ˌpræktɪˈkæləti/.
Engineers weighed the practicality of solar panels against their initial cost when designing the remote research station. (在设计偏远的研究站时，工程师们权衡了太阳能电池板的实用性与初始成本。)
feasibility, usefulness, pragmatism — all close in meaning to practicality (the quality of being practical or useful).
impracticality, idealism — each the opposite of practicality (the quality of being practical or useful).
Yes. practicality is on the SAT Prep Basic list — the everyday academic words the SAT assumes you already have. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.