UNSUITABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unsuitableness mean? 

• UNSUITABLENESS (noun)
  The noun UNSUITABLENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose

  Familiarity information: UNSUITABLENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSUITABLENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ineptness; unsuitability; unsuitableness

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

quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)

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

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

unfitness (the quality of not being suitable)

inconvenience (the quality of not being useful or convenient)

Antonym:

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

Derivation:

unsuitable (not worthy of being chosen (especially as a spouse))

unsuitable (not meant or adapted for a particular purpose)

unsuitable (not conducive to good moral development)

 Context examples 

But this did not last long; Elinor had hardly got their last visitors out of her head, had hardly done wondering at Charlotte's being so happy without a cause, at Mr. Palmer's acting so simply, with good abilities, and at the strange unsuitableness which often existed between husband and wife, before Sir John's and Mrs. Jennings's active zeal in the cause of society, procured her some other new acquaintance to see and observe.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)