APPROPRIATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appropriateness mean? 

• APPROPRIATENESS (noun)
  The noun APPROPRIATENESS has 2 senses:

1. appropriate conduct; doing the right thing

2. the quality of being specially suitable

  Familiarity information: APPROPRIATENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPROPRIATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appropriate conduct; doing the right thing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

appropriateness; rightness

Hypernyms ("appropriateness" is a kind of...):

correctitude; properness; propriety (correct or appropriate behavior)

Antonym:

inappropriateness (inappropriate conduct)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being specially suitable

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("appropriateness" is a kind of...):

suitability; suitableness (the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose)

Attribute:

appropriate (suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc)

inappropriate (not suitable for a particular occasion etc)

apropos (of an appropriate or pertinent nature)

malapropos (of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "appropriateness"):

felicitousness; felicity (pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression))

appositeness; aptness (appropriateness for the occasion)

just the ticket; ticket (the appropriate or desirable thing)

Antonym:

inappropriateness (the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting)

Derivation:

appropriate (suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with the accuracy and appropriateness of any written, printed, graphic or audio/visual matter that is supplied with a medical device or its containers, wrappers; with any matter that accompanies a medical device including instructions related to identification, technical description and use of the medical device provided by the device manufacturer.

(Instruction for Medical Device Use Issue, Food and Drug Administration)

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a component of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, is the Federal Government's focal point for research of the availability, quality, and costs of health care services; and ways to improve the effectiveness and appropriateness of clinical practice, including the prevention of diseases.

(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, NCI Thesaurus)

She then declaimed the little piece with an attention to punctuation and emphasis, a flexibility of voice and an appropriateness of gesture, very unusual indeed at her age, and which proved she had been carefully trained.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)