SUITABILITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suitability mean? 

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

1. the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUITABILITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

suitability; suitableness

Context example:

an important requirement is suitability for long trips

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

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

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

appropriateness (the quality of being specially suitable)

fitness; fittingness (the quality of being suitable)

convenience (the quality of being useful and convenient)

Antonym:

unsuitability (the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose)

 Context examples 

He ask no person; he choose no time of suitability.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Similarly, the process by which a product or process can achieve certification indicating its suitability for a specific purpose.

(Certification, NCI Thesaurus)

A qualitative or quantitative measure that describes a biospecimen's suitability for testing purposes.

(Biospecimen Usability, NCI Thesaurus)