appositeness

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Appositeness is the quality of being fitting or relevant to the matter at hand.

Something has appositeness when it suits the occasion perfectly: The appositeness of her remarks impressed everyone.

The word is formal and relatively rare; most speakers would simply say relevance or appropriateness.

fittingness

aptness

Quality of being suitable

felicity · relevance · pertinence · compatibility · harmony · consonance · correspondence · alignment · accord · fitness

relevance

pertinence

Quality of being applicable

materiality · connection · significance · relatedness · pointedness · relation · correlation · context · import · consequence

timeliness

opportuneness

Apt timing quality

right moment · well-timed · ripeness · readiness · synchronicity · punctuality

Opposites
relevance

appositenessirrelevance

Lack of pertinence

irrelevancy · inapplicability · immateriality · pointlessness · meaninglessness

appropriateness

appositenessinappropriateness

Lack of suitability

unsuitability · inaptness · unfitness · impropriety · improperness

congruence

appositenessincongruity

Lack of harmony

incongruousness · incongruence · incompatibility · disharmony · disagreeableness

Family

opposition, composition, disposition, proposition, imposition, deposition, exposition, apposite, supposition

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G