appropriateness

1. 1.

   appropriate conduct; doing the right thing

   Synonymsrightness

   Antonymsinappropriateness

   Broaderpropriety
2. 2.

   the quality of being specially suitable

   Antonymsinappropriateness

   Broadersuitability

   Narrowerfelicityaptnessticket

Other forms of appropriateness

plural

appropriatenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about appropriateness

What does appropriateness mean?

appropriateness means "appropriate conduct; doing the right thing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in appropriateness?

appropriateness has 5 syllables: ap-pro-pria-te-ness. The stress falls on "pro". In IPA it is /əˈpɹoʊpɹiətnəs/.

What is another word for appropriateness?

Close synonyms include rightness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of appropriateness?

The recorded antonyms are inappropriateness, inappropriateness.

Is appropriateness a common word?

appropriateness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.