Terms vs Inappositeness - What's the difference?
terms | inappositeness |
The state or quality of not being apposite.
*{{quote-book, year=1898, author=George William Erskine Russell, title=Collections and Recollections, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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 .’
As nouns the difference between terms and inappositeness
is that terms is while inappositeness is the state or quality of not being apposite.inappositeness
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