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appositeness
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appositeness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relevance |
| Synonyms: | applicability, application, appropriateness, bearing, materiality, pertinence, pertinency, relevancy, suitability, suitableness |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
| Synonyms: | advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, rightness, suitability, usefulness, utilitarianism, utility |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | fitness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, admissibility, agreeableness, applicability, appositeness, aptitude, aptness, assimilation, auspiciousness, compatibility, competence, concurrency, congeniality, congruousness, consistency, consonance, convenience, correspondence, decency, decorum, eligibility, expediency, harmony, keeping, order, patness, pertinence, preparedness, propriety, qualification, readiness, relevancy, rightness, seasonableness, seemliness, suitability, timeliness |
| Antonyms: | inappropriateness, unsuitability |
| Main Entry: | propriety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suitableness, appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | accordance, advisability, agreeableness, appositeness, aptness, becomingness, compatibility, concord, congruity, consonance, convenience, correctness, correspondence, decorum, ethicality, expedience, fitness, harmony, justice, legitimacy, meetness, morality, order, pleasantness, properness, recommendability, rectitude, respectability, rightness, seemliness, suitability |
| Antonyms: | immorality, impropriety, inappropriateness, unsuitableness, wrong |
| Main Entry: | relationship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection; friendship |
| Synonyms: | accord, affair, affiliation, affinity, alliance, analogy, appositeness, association, bond, communication, conjunction, consanguinity, consociation, contact, contingency, correlation, dependence, dependency, exchange, homogeneity, hookup, interconnection, interrelation, interrelationship, kinship, liaison, likeness, link, marriage, nearness, network, parallel, pertinence, pertinency, proportion, rapport, ratio, relation, relativity, relevance, similarity, tie, tie-in, tie-up |
| Main Entry: | applicability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relevance |
| Synonyms: | application, appositeness, appropriateness, bearing, materiality, pertinence, pertinency, relevancy, suitability, suitableness |
| Main Entry: | aptness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness |
| Synonyms: | appositeness, felicitousness, fitness, fittingness, suitability, suitableness |
| Main Entry: | germaneness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relevance |
| Synonyms: | applicability, application, appositeness, aptness, bearing, concernment, fitness, materiality, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevancy, suitability, suitableness, usefulness |
| Main Entry: | materiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relevance |
| Synonyms: | accordance, applicability, application, appositeness, aptness, bearing, concernment, congruence, correspondence, germaneness, importance, matter, pertinence, pertinency, relatedness, relativity, relevancy, significance, substance |
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