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patness
noun as in fitness
Strongest matches
Strong matches
- accommodation
- accordance
- adaptation
- admissibility
- agreeableness
- applicability
- appositeness
- aptitude
- aptness
- assimilation
- auspiciousness
- concurrency
- congeniality
- congruousness
- consonance
- convenience
- correspondence
- decency
- decorum
- expediency
- harmony
- keeping
- order
- pertinence
- propriety
- relevancy
- rightness
- seasonableness
- seemliness
- timeliness
Example Sentences
The patness of this description is striking; its laziness borders on indifference.
The concluding reveal is over the top both in its ridiculous patness and in its late-breaking attempt to spark big, soft emotions in a movie that never set its audience up to feel them.
There’s a flat phoniness to all the behavior, and a patness to everything.
As written, the words appear noncommittal, yet the rhyme implies the patness of what these women have to say.
The patness of Zambello’s original “American Ring” concept in 2006 — in which Nibelungs are slaves and Wotan is a capitalist — has proved the foundation for a more honest and even realistic commentary.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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