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Apposite vs Inappositeness - What's the difference?

apposite | inappositeness |

As nouns the difference between apposite and inappositeness

is that apposite is something that is apposite while inappositeness is the state or quality of not being apposite.

As an adjective apposite

is appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.

apposite

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.
  • * c.1833-1856 , Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol'', in '' ,
    • Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation;.
  • *
    • Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr F.’s Aunt had a great deal of spirit.
  • * 1919 , , Chapter 15: The Expanding Vocabulary,
    • Rough-neck'' is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English ''navvy , and it is over-whelmingly more American.
  • Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.
  • * 1971 , University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , Volume 34, page 262,
    • In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.
  • Related, homologous.
  • * 2000 , David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles'', in ''Pericles: Critical Essays ,
    • If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.

    Related terms

    * apposition

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Something that is
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles L. Marson, title=Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Hugh gave the boy apples or other small apposites

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    See also

    * opposite ----

    inappositeness

    English

    Noun

  • The state or quality of not being apposite.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=George William Erskine Russell, title=Collections and Recollections, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And certainly an apt quotation is one of the most effective decorations of a public speech; but the dangers of inappositeness are correspondingly formidable. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1908, author=Charles Whibley, title=American Sketches, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=To men and women excited by the details of the last murder they discourse of the existence of God in short, crisp sentences,--and I know not which is worse, the triviality of the discourse or its inappositeness . }}
  • *1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 718:
  • *:‘And then, your uncle made an inaugural speech at his first press conference which was of fantastic inappositeness .’