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FITTINGNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being suitable
Example:
they had to prove their fitness for the position
Synonyms:
fitness; fittingness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("fittingness" is a kind of...):
suitability; suitableness (the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fittingness"):
making; qualification (an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something)
habitability; habitableness (suitability for living in or on)
Derivation:
fitting (being precisely fitting and right)
fitting (in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion)
