Purpose and Success

Purpose

Purpose noun - Something that one hopes or intends to accomplish.

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Success and purpose are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Success" instead a noun "Purpose".

Success noun - A person or thing that is successful.

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Purpose and success are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Purpose" with "Success", this nouns are similar.

good	good purpose	good success
better	better purpose	better success
similar	similar purpose	similar success
initial	initial purpose	initial success
Other adjectives: true, actual, real, little, ultimate, major, apparent, less, further, greater, renewed.

The belt hadn't served its original purpose for a long time, but was kept around mainly due to its merchandising success, before finally being replaced in early 2013.

Source: The Artifact / Professional Wrestling
Victory Pose Video Game Cruelty: It was the whole purpose behind the Finishing Moves and the success of the series.

Source: Franchise / Mortal Kombat
Many Medic achievements either required a lot of fighting for a class whose main purpose is healing, or were otherwise outright counter-intuitive to the success of the team.

Source: That One Achievement

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