Appositeness

  

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Appositeness

Definition: Appositeness

Appositeness

Noun

1. Appropriateness; "the phrase had considerable aptness".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "appositeness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)


Synonym: Appositeness

Synonym: aptness (n). (additional references)
Antonym: inaptness (n). (additional references)

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Usage Frequency: Appositeness

"Appositeness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Appositeness" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Appositeness

Language Translations for "appositeness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏سداد صوابك, ‏ردة (refrain). (various references)

   

French

  

apposition (application, apposition). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

appositenessay

   

Romanian

  

justeţe (accuracy, equitableness, exactness, fair-mindedness, fairness, impartiality, justice, justness, righteousness, rightness, rigor, rigour, strictness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

уместность (appropriateness, pertinence, propriety, relevance, relevancy). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yerindelik (legitimacy, opportuneness, pertinence, propriety, suitability, timeliness), uygunluk (acceptability, accordance, adaptation, adequacy, advisability, aptitude, coherence, coherency, comeliness, compatibility, concord, conformation, conformity, congeniality, congruence, congruity, convenience, correctitude, correctness, correspondence, decency, expedience, expediency, felicity, fidelity, fitness, handiness, happiness, opportuneness, pertinence, propitiousness, propriety, relevance, relevancy, seemliness, sufficiency, suitability), münasiplik. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Appositeness

Derivations

Words beginning with "appositeness": appositenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "appositeness": inappositeness. (additional references)

Words containing "appositeness": inappositenesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Appositeness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-n-o-p-p-s-s-s-t"

-2 letters: antisepses, appointees, pipestones.

-3 letters: antipopes, appointee, aptnesses, epistases, essonites, pastiness, patnesses, petasoses, pipestone, saponites, sappiness, snappiest, soapiness, soppiness, steapsins.

-4 letters: antipope, appoints, apposite, astonies, easiness, enosises, epitases, epitopes, essonite, etesians, nappiest, noesises, passions, pastises, pastness, pentoses, pepsines, peptones, pinesaps, pissants, poetises, posteens, saponite, sappiest, senopias, sensates, sestinas, sestines, snippets, soapiest, sonsiest, soppiest, steapsin.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-n-o-p-p-s-s-s-t"
 

+2 letters: appositenesses, inappositeness.

 

+4 letters: inappositenesses.

 

+5 letters: appropriatenesses, superspeculations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Appositeness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 70 70 6F 73 69 74 65 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01110000 01110000 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110100 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#112 &#112 &#111 &#115 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0070 0070 006F 0073 0069 0074 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

358282818575867180718585

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Appositeness"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Arabic

‏معجم, ‏قاموس, ‏الوضوحية في الشيء, ‏حد, ‏تحديد, ‏تعريف, ‏التحديد, ‏الإيضاحية, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, arabe, arabic, арабский, arapça, arap, araplara özgü

French

dictionnaire, définition, traduction‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏فرنسي, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, français, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili

Romanian

dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcireRoumain, român, румынский, румын

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение‏روسي, ‏اللغة الروسية, ‏الروسية, русский, Rusça

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme‏تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, ‏اللغة التركية, turque, turcesc, turc, турецкий, türkçe, türk

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translation‏الإنجليزية, ‏الأنكليزي, ‏إنكليزي, ‏ترجمة إنكليزية, ‏اللغة الإنكليزية, anglais, englezesc, английский, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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