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Noun: inappropriateness  `i-nu'prow-pree-ut-nus
  1. Inappropriate conduct
    - wrongness
     
  2. The quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting
    "he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person"
    - unworthiness

Derived forms: inappropriatenesses

See also: inappropriate

Type of: improperness, impropriety, ineptness, unsuitability, unsuitableness

Antonym: appropriateness

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