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appositeness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English apposite Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English appositeness From apposite + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) the state of being apposite
   • For two years more he lingered, sinking slowly into unconsciousness and imbecility. Sometimes, propped up in his chair, he would be heard to murmur, with unexpected appositeness, the words of Samson [...] 1921, Lytton Strachey, Queen Victoria:
   • And though in this instance the king [Louis XVI of France] promised to the extent that he feared, and broke his promises to the extent that he hoped, one cannot but marvel at the precise appositeness of La Rochefoucauld’s aphorism […] [that] promises were made 'to the extent that (men) hoped and kept to the extent that they feared' […] 1963, Hannah Arendt, On Revolution:
   • There is a want of appositeness and accuracy in the first sentence of this extract, which renders it somewhat difficult to determine whether the author designed it as a single proposition, or as a series of independent propositions. 1840, Abel Upshur, A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government, Campbell, page 62:

Forms

Translations (2)

ru уме́стность (the state of being apposite) · de Angemessenheit (the state of being apposite)