suitability

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

suitability
    n 1: the quality of having the properties that are right for a
         specific purpose; "an important requirement is suitability
         for long trips" [syn: {suitability}, {suitableness}] [ant:
         {ineptness}, {unsuitability}, {unsuitableness}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Suitability \Suit`a*bil"i*ty\, n.
   The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

85 Moby Thesaurus words for "suitability":
      ability, acceptability, admissibility, advantage, advantageousness,
      advisability, applicability, appositeness, appropriateness,
      aptitude, aptness, auspiciousness, becomingness, beneficialness,
      capability, chargedness, civility, competence, competency,
      condition, convenience, correctitude, correctness, criticality,
      crucialness, decencies, decency, decorousness, decorum,
      desirability, eligibility, eligible, expedience, expediency,
      favorableness, feasibility, felicitousness, felicity, fitness,
      fittedness, fittingness, fruitfulness, genteelness, gentility,
      goodness, happiness, loadedness, mastery, maturity, meetness,
      niceness, normality, normativeness, opportuneness, percentage,
      politicness, pregnancy, preparedness, proficiency, profit,
      profitability, properness, propitiousness, proprieties, propriety,
      prudence, qualification, readiness, relevance, righteousness,
      rightness, ripeness, seasonableness, seasoning, seemliness,
      suitableness, suitedness, tempering, timeliness, trim, urbanity,
      usefulness, wisdom, worthiness, worthwhileness

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