Benefit
Interest
Interest noun - The state of doing well especially in relation to one's happiness or success.
Usage example: make no mistake: she's determined to act in her own interest in this business deal
Benefit is a synonym for interest in advantage topic. You can use "Benefit" instead a noun "Interest", if it concerns topics such as help, favor, welfare. popular alternative
How words are described
| human | human benefit | human interest |
| special | special benefit | special interest |
| best | best benefit | best interest |
| particular | particular benefit | particular interest |
| Other adjectives: public, initial, obvious, actual, real, great, little, potential, main, personal, major, immediate, possible, apparent, less, slightest, mutual, greater, primary. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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The Terran Alliance is Good (75), with the humans valuing their personal benefit above all and acting in enlightened self-interest.
- Enlightened self-interest is a concept in ethics that doing things that benefit others also provides tangible benefits to the do-gooder.
Source: Enlightened Self-Interest - Except that they paid whatever minuscule environmental benefit all back, with massive interest, by flying to the Arctic to film a promo.
Source: Anvilicious / Live-Action TV
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