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Definition of Fittingness
1. Noun. The quality of being suitable. "They had to prove their fitness for the position"
Generic synonyms: Suitability, Suitableness
Specialized synonyms: Making, Qualification, Habitability, Habitableness
Derivative terms: Fit, Fit, Fitting, Fitting
Antonyms: Unfitness
Definition of Fittingness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being fitting; suitability. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fittingness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fittingness
Literary usage of Fittingness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Belcaro: Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions by Vernon Lee (1887)
"Thus the goodness of the form must not be a fittingness to something outside and
separate from the form, it must be intrinsic in the form itself. ..."
2. The Theory of Conditional Sentences in Greek & Latin for the Use of Students by Richard Horton- Smith (1894)
"... see above note 2 r ; and note what is there said about the preferential use
of " should " in cases where a notion of duty or fittingness is involved. 2. ..."
3. My Farm of Edgewood: A Country Book by Donald Grant Mitchell (1884)
"There is an absolute and charming fittingness about most of these humble rural
adornments, of which I speak, which our progressive friend does not like to ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"... and the diffusion of cults (whether of faith or of works) according to their
fittingness for the several stages of intellectual development, ..."
5. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"The bindings are novel, and they have the triple merit of originality, beauty,
and fittingness for the books which they cover. One of the most important ..."
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