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Properness vs Appropriateness - What's the difference?

properness | appropriateness |

As nouns the difference between properness and appropriateness

is that properness is (obsolete) excellence, quality while appropriateness is the quality or condition of being appropriate.

properness

English

Noun

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  • (obsolete) Excellence, quality.
  • *, II.3.2:
  • *:Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuitsbetook himself to his beads, and by those means got more honour than ever he should have done with the use of his limbs and properness of person […].
  • The state or condition of being proper; propriety.
  • (mathematics) The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.).

    • appropriateness

    English

    Noun

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  • the quality or condition of being appropriate