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OPPORTUNENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does opportuneness mean?
• OPPORTUNENESS (noun)
The noun OPPORTUNENESS has 1 sense:
1. timely convenience
Familiarity information: OPPORTUNENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Timely convenience
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
opportuneness; patness; timeliness
Hypernyms ("opportuneness" is a kind of...):
convenience (the quality of being useful and convenient)
Antonym:
inopportuneness (the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time)
Derivation:
opportune (suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose)
Context examples
And when she pointed out the opportuneness of the time, that the entrance examinations to high school began on the following Monday, he promptly volunteered that he would take them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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