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]