SUITABLENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suitableness mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUITABLENESS (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 ("suitableness" is a kind of...):

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

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

appropriateness (the quality of being specially suitable)

fitness; fittingness (the quality of being suitable)

convenience (the quality of being useful and convenient)

Antonym:

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

Derivation:

suitable (worthy of being chosen especially as a spouse)

suitable (meant or adapted for an occasion or use)

 Context examples 

She seemed bent on giving no real insight into Mr. Dixon's character, or her own value for his company, or opinion of the suitableness of the match.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

This was his plan of amends—of atonement—for inheriting their father's estate; and he thought it an excellent one, full of eligibility and suitableness, and excessively generous and disinterested on his own part.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

One enjoyment was certain—that of suitableness of companions; a suitableness which comprehended health and temper to bear inconveniences—cheerfulness to enhance every pleasure—and affection and intelligence, which might supply it among themselves if there were disappointments abroad.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)