Unsuitableness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being unsuited or inappropriate. uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose wordnet

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unsuitabilityunsuitabilityad libbad tastecampdisqualification

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"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."

Etymology

From unsuitable + -ness.

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