appropriateness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

appropriateness
    n 1: appropriate conduct; doing the right thing [syn:
         {appropriateness}, {rightness}] [ant: {inappropriateness},
         {wrongness}]
    2: the quality of being specially suitable [ant:
       {inappropriateness}, {unworthiness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Appropriateness \Ap*pro"pri*ate*ness\, n.
   The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness.
   --Froude.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

30 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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