APPOSITENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does appositeness mean? 

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

1. appropriateness for the occasion

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPOSITENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Appropriateness for the occasion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

appositeness; aptness

Context example:

the phrase had considerable aptness

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

appropriateness (the quality of being specially suitable)

Antonym:

inappositeness (inappropriateness)

Derivation:

apposite (being of striking appropriateness and pertinence)

 Context examples 

I could not at the moment recall Enoch's appositeness; so I had to ask a simple question, though I felt that by so doing I was lowering myself in the eyes of the lunatic:—And why with Enoch?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)