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Accuracy vs Appropriateness - What's the difference?

accuracy | appropriateness |

As nouns the difference between accuracy and appropriateness

is that accuracy is the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness while appropriateness is the quality or condition of being appropriate.

accuracy

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(accuracies)
  • The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
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  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy? ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.

    • Synonyms

    * correctness * truthfulness

    Antonyms

    * inaccuracy

    See also

    * precision * integrity * exactness * fidelity

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    appropriateness

    English

    Noun

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  • the quality or condition of being appropriate