utilitarismo
Portuguese, noun/u.t͡ʃi.li.taˈɾiz.mu/
utilitarismo is spelled U-T-I-L-I-T-A-R-I-S-M-O (12 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese, the 76,994th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Utilitarismo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “utilitarianism (the theory of the "greatest happiness for the greatest number of people")” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “qualidade do que é utilitário ou utilitarista”.
What does utilitarismo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineutilitarianism (the theory of the "greatest happiness for the greatest number of people")
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. qualidade do que é utilitário ou utilitarista 2. doutrina ética mais destacada em Jeremy Bentham e John Stuart Mill que vê o bem como estando naquilo que traz maior utilidade ou felicidade para o indivíduo e sua coletividade
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce utilitarismo?
- Brazil /u.t͡ʃi.li.taˈɾiz.mu/
- /u.t͡ʃi.li.taˈɾiʒ.mu/
- Portugal /u.ti.li.tɐˈɾiʒ.mu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to utilitarismo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is utilitarismo in Portuguese?
utilitarismo appears about once in every 6 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).