Interest and Utility

Interest

Interest noun - A legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something.

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Utility and interest are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Utility" instead a noun "Interest".

Utility noun - The capacity for being useful for some purpose.

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Interest and utility are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Interest" instead a noun "Utility".

human	human interest	human utility
best	best interest	best utility
common	common interest	common utility
public	public interest	public utility
Other adjectives: future, true, genuine, single, obvious, strong, actual, real, great, huge, little, main, sole, possible, less.

Spider-Man notes that he could be using his advanced tech to cure cancer, but being a Superpowered Evil Side Sauron has no interest in such Mundane Utility.

Source: Characters / X Men Brotherhood Of Mutants
Mundane Utility: During a presentation, Adam expressed great interest in testing more "mundane" myths, like comparing consumer products to see which ones perform better or whether they perform up to the standards their manufacturers claim.

Source: Series / MythBusters

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