Unappropriateness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of inappropriateness. obsolete, uncountable

    "1873, Margaret Oliphant, Innocent […] and yet the impropriety, the unappropriateness of wearing it at such a time was almost "past speaking of," Mrs. Drainham felt. "You should wear nothing but jet ornaments with such deep mourning," she said."

Synonyms

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inappropriateness

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"1873, Margaret Oliphant, Innocent […] and yet the impropriety, the unappropriateness of wearing it at such a time was almost "past speaking of," Mrs. Drainham felt. "You should wear nothing but jet ornaments with such deep mourning," she said."

Etymology

From unappropriate + -ness.

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