1.
[syn: appropriateness, rightness]
2. the quality of being specially suitable;
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]
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]
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