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INAPPROPRIATENESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does inappropriateness mean?

• INAPPROPRIATENESS (noun)
The noun INAPPROPRIATENESS has 2 senses:

1. inappropriate conduct
2. the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting

Familiarity information: INAPPROPRIATENESS used as a noun is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• INAPPROPRIATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Inappropriate conduct

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inappropriateness; wrongness

Hypernyms ("inappropriateness" is a kind of...):

improperness; impropriety (an improper demeanor)

Antonym:

appropriateness (appropriate conduct; doing the right thing)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

The quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

inappropriateness; unworthiness

Context examples:

he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person / his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness

Hypernyms ("inappropriateness" is a kind of...):

ineptness; unsuitability; unsuitableness (the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inappropriateness"):

inappositeness; inaptness (inappropriateness)

infelicity (inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression))

Antonym:

appropriateness (the quality of being specially suitable)

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