unsuitableness

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English

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Etymology

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From unsuitable +‎ -ness.

Noun

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unsuitableness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being unsuited or inappropriate.
    • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Intelligence Office”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
      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.

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