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Definition: Appropriateness |
AppropriatenessNoun1. Appropriate conduct; doing the right thing. 2. The quality of being specially suitable. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "appropriateness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
Synonym: AppropriatenessSynonym: rightness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: inappropriateness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Appropriateness |
| English words defined with "appropriateness": apposite, appositeness, appropriate, apt, aptness ♦ germane ♦ inappositeness, inaptness, incongruous ♦ pertinent, proper ♦ related. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "appropriateness": Child Behavior Disorders ♦ DATA-EXAMINATION CLERK, Drug Utilization Review ♦ Patient Selection, Professional Review Organizations ♦ REVENUE AGENT ♦ SUPERVISOR, CORRESPONDENCE SECTION. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | For some infants, the appropriateness of home monitoring is uncertain. (references) | |
Studies of Clinical Practice including effectiveness, quality of care, outcomes, health-related quality of life, and appropriateness of care are needed. (references) | ||
Although these effectiveness rates hold in general, individual treatment outcomes depend on the extent and nature of the patient's presenting problems, the appropriateness of the treatment components and related services used to address those problems, and the degree of active engagement of the patient in the treatment process. (references) | ||
Economic History | Georgia | In general, other rates of taxation in Georgia are also comparable to those in Europe and the United States, although the appropriateness of such rates is the subject of debate within the country. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Appropriateness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Appropriateness" is used about 222 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 222 | 20,237 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "appropriateness": appropriateness-conditions. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
appropriateness design research | 4 |
appropriateness | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "appropriateness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përshtatje (accordance, adaptation, adjustment, aptness, concord, conformation, conformity, fit, fitness, naturalization, readjustment). (various references) | |
Arabic | مناسبة (occasion, opportunity, relation), ملاءمة (agreeability, aptness, convenience, expedience, expediency, fitness, suitability). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съответствие (accordance, adequacy, agreement, aptness, conformity, congruence, correspondence, fit, parallel, parallelism, parity, pendant, tally), уместност (advisability, felicity, neatness, pertinence, poignancy, propriety, relevance, relevancy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 妥帖. (various references) | |
Czech | vhodnost (aptness, convenience, fitness, pertinence, propriety, suitability). (various references) | |
Finnish | tarkoituksenmukaisuus (expediency, fitness), sopivaisuus (fitness, propriety, suitability, suitableness). (various references) | |
French | justesse (aptness), convenance. (various references) | |
German | angemessenheit (adequacy, aptness, commensurability, commensurateness, congenialness, expedience, expediency, fairness, fitness, pertinency, reasonableness, suitability), opportunität (opportuneness). (various references) | |
Greek | καταλληλότητα (adequacy, aptness, fitness, properness, suitability), αρμοδιότητα (activity, aptitude, cognizance, competence, domain, eligibility, fitness, jurisdiction, propriety, province, relevance, relevancy, suitability). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "תאמ" (accommodation, accord, adaptation, adjustment, agreement, aptness, compliance, correspondence, fit, fitness, harmony, suitability), אותות (propriety). (various references) | |
Hungarian | alkalmasság (adequacy, aptitude, aptness, competence, competency, efficiency, eligibility, fitness, fittingness, neatness, seemliness, sufficiency, suitability). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kepatutan (consideration, fairness), kepantasan (decency, fairness, properness), kecocokan (agreement, harmony). (various references) | |
Italian | appropriatezza. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 剴切 (adequacy, aptness). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がいせつ (adequacy, aptness, circumscription, general statement, outline). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | appropriatenessay.(various references) | |
Romanian | caracter potrivit (propriety). (various references) | |
Russian | соответствие (abidance, accordance, according, adequacy, agreeableness, aptness, concord, concordance, concurrence, conformance, conformance to, conformity, correspondence, fitness, mapping, parallel, suitability). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zgodnost (aptness), podesnost. (various references) | |
Spanish | propiedad (chattel, deprivation, domain, estate, holding, individual, ownership, property, proprietary, proprietorship, propriety, right), oportunidad (advisability, break, chance, competence, competency, expedience, expediency, innings, occasion, opening, opportuneness, opportunity, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, shot, show, suitability, timeliness, turn). (various references) | |
Swedish | anslag (allocation, allotment, allowance, appropriation, bill, fingering, grant, intrigue, notice, placard, poster, supply, touch). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | справедливість (equality, equity, fairness, impartiality, justice, justness, orthopraxy, righteousness, rightfulness), точність (accuracy, correctness, exactitude, exactness, explicitness, fidelity, justness, nicety, preciseness, precision, rigor, rigour, scrupulosity, sensibility, veracity), відповідність (accord, accordance, adequacy, aptness, concordance, conformity, congruence, correspondence, parallel, suitability, sympathy, truth), доречність (aptitude, aptness, fitness, happiness, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevance, relevancy, rightness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự thích hợp (adequacy, adequateness, congruity, congurence, fitness, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevance, relevancy, suitability, suitableness), sự thích đáng (adequacy, adequateness, aptness, pertinence, pertinency, propriety, relevance, relevancy). (various references) | |
Welsh | priodoldeb (propriety). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "appropriateness": appropriatenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "appropriateness": inappropriateness. (additional references) | |
Words containing "appropriateness": inappropriatenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Appropriateness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: appropiateness, apropriateness, aproprieteness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "appropriateness" (pronounced uprō"prēutnus) |
| 5 | -u t n u s | quietness, separateness. |
| 4 | -t n u s | abruptness, absoluteness, acuteness, alertness, astuteness, bluntness, brightness, compactness, completeness, correctness, cuteness, directness, earnestness, eyewitness, faintness, fastness, fitness, flatness, forthrightness, gauntness, greatness, ineptness, inertness, lateness, lightfastness, lightness, neatness, politeness, remoteness, rightness, robustness, shortness, softness, steadfastness, stoutness, sweetness, swiftness, tartness, tightness, unpleasantness, vastness, wetness, whiteness, witness. |
| 3 | -n u s | aggressiveness, agribusiness, airworthiness, aloofness, alumnus, Anas, androgynous, anise, arbitrariness, assertiveness, asynchronous, attentiveness, attractiveness, awareness, awfulness, awkwardness, backwardness, badness, bagginess, baldness, bearishness, bigness, bitterness, bituminous, blackness, blandness, bleakness, blindness, boldness, bonus, boorishness, brashness, bullishness, business, callousness, calmness, carelessness, casualness, cautiousness, cavernous, cheapness, chitinous, cleanliness, cleanness, cleverness, closeness, cloudiness, clumsiness, cockiness, cohesiveness, coldness, Colonus, combativeness, competitiveness, consciousness, contagiousness, contentiousness, contrariness, Conus, coolness, coziness, craziness, creativeness, creditworthiness, creepiness, crispness, crookedness, dampness, darkness, Deaconess, deadliness, deafness, decisiveness, defensiveness, destructiveness, disingenuousness, distinctiveness, divisiveness, dizziness, dreariness, drowsiness, drunkenness, dryness, dullness, eagerness, edginess, effectiveness, elusiveness, emptiness, evenness, exogenous, fairness, farsightedness, fickleness, firmness, fondness, foolishness, forcefulness, forgiveness, foulness, fractiousness, frankness, freshness, friendliness, frothiness, fullness, funniness, furnace, gayness, gelatinous, gentleness, genuineness, genus, ghastliness, gluttonous, goodness, governess, graciousness, greenness, grimness, hairiness, handedness, happiness, hardness, harmfulness, harness, harshness, heinous, helplessness, highness, hoarseness, holiness, homelessness, homesickness, homogenous, hopefulness, hopelessness, humanness, idleness, illness, inclusiveness, indebtedness, indecisiveness, indigenous, ineffectiveness, intravenous, intrusiveness, inventiveness, joblessness, Johannes, kindness, larcenous, largeness, lawlessness, laziness, lenis, likeness, liveliness, loneliness, lousiness, luminous, madness, Manus, meanness, membranous, menace, Minas, mindedness, minus, monotonous, mountainous, mutinous, narrowness, nastiness, nearsightedness, nervousness, newness, niceness, nitrogenous, nonbusiness, nonpoisonous, nosiness, nothingness, numbness, ominous, oneness, onus, openness, orderliness, otherness, outrageousness, outspokenness, pandanus, peacefulness, penis, permissiveness, persuasiveness, pervasiveness, pettiness, playfulness, poisonous, polygynous, pompousness, possessiveness, powerlessness, preparedness, queasiness, quickness, raciness, randomness, rareness, ravenous, rawness, readiness, reasonableness, rebelliousness, recklessness, redness, resistiveness, resourcefulness, responsiveness, restiveness, restlessness, restrictiveness, richness, righteousness, riskiness, roominess, roughness, rowdiness, rudeness, ruinous, ruthlessness, sacredness, sadness, Salinas, sameness, scantiness, secretiveness, selfishness, selflessness, sensitiveness, seriousness, shakiness, shallowness, sharpness, shortsightedness, shrewdness, shyness, sickness, silliness, sinus, skittishness, slackness, sleepiness, sloppiness, slovenliness, slowness, sluggishness, slyness, smallness, smoothness, smugness, solitariness, soundness, spiritedness, squeamishness, starkness, steadiness, steepness, sternness, stiffness, stillness, stinginess, strangeness, stubbornness, sturdiness, suddenness, suggestiveness, tardiness, tastiness, tenderness, tetanus, thickness, thinness, thoroughness, thoughtfulness, timeliness, tiredness, togetherness, toughness, trustworthiness, truthfulness, ugliness, unconsciousness, uneasiness, unfairness, unhappiness, uniqueness, unwieldiness, unwillingness, usefulness, vagueness, venous, viciousness, villainous, vindictiveness, vividness, voluminous, wariness, wastefulness, waterishness, weakness, weariness, weightlessness, weirdness, wellness, wholeness, wholesomeness, wickedness, wilderness, wildness, willingness, wimpiness, wistfulness, wonderfulness, worldliness, worthiness, wryness. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-i-n-o-p-p-p-r-r-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: appropriates, preparations. | |
-4 letters: appressoria, appropriate, interposers, peasantries, praetorians, preparation, proteinases, reappraises, reassertion, reparations, separations. | |
-5 letters: apparitors, appertains, appetisers, appointees, appraisees, appraisers, aspirators, interposer, interposes, notepapers, paperiness, passionate, patronises, pepperonis, personates, pipestones, pistareens, praetorian, preppiness, pretorians, properness, properties, proteinase, reappoints, reappraise, reparation, repression, separation, separators, serrations, sparteines, transpires. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-i-n-o-p-p-p-r-r-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: appropriatenesses, inappropriateness. | |
+4 letters: inappropriatenesses. | |
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