unsuitableness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English unsuitable 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 unsuitableness From unsuitable + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or quality of being unsuited or inappropriate.
At the next lifting of the latch there entered a person with his hat awry upon his head, his clothes perversely ill-suited to his form, his eyes staring in directions opposite to their intelligence, and a certain odd unsuitableness pervading his whole figure.
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Intelligence Office”, in Mosses from an Old Manse: