fittingness

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Broccoli noted the fittingness of the scene - Craig running away from camera, into the dark.

From Washington Times • Oct. 4, 2021

Broccoli noted the fittingness of the scene — Craig running away from camera, into the dark.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2021

Or a fittingness, as if something about them makes them naturally suited to be approached, the way a flower is suited by nature for bees?

From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2019

But there was a profound and encouraging sense of rightness, of fittingness, at Bush’s death.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2018

Consequently the reasons for these observances may be taken in two ways, first according to their fittingness to the worship of God; secondly, according as they foreshadow something touching the Christian mode of life.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint