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appropriateness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun appropriateness has 2 senses
- appropriateness(n = noun.attribute) rightness - appropriate conduct; doing the right thing; Array is a kind of correctitude, properness, propriety
- appropriateness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the quality of being specially suitable; Array is a kind of suitability, suitableness
Antonym: inappropriateness
has particulars: felicitousness, felicity, appositeness, aptness, just the ticket, ticket
Derived form adjective appropriate1
Antonym: inappropriateness
CIDE DICTIONARY
appropriateness, n.
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
appropriateness
account, advantage, aid, allotment, allowance, applicability, appositeness, appropriation, aptness, assistance, expediency, fitness, grant, grant-in-aid, help, meetness, order, propriety, relevance, rightness, service, serviceability, stipend, subsidy, subvention, suitability, suitableness, use, usefulness, utility
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