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Noun: appropriateness  u'prow-pree-ut-nus
  1. Appropriate conduct; doing the right thing
    - rightness
     
  2. The quality of being specially suitable

Derived forms: appropriatenesses

See also: appropriate, apropos, inappropriate, malapropos

Type of: correctitude, properness, propriety, suitability, suitableness

Antonym: inappropriateness

Encyclopedia: Appropriateness

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