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Terms vs Inappositeness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and inappositeness

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

terms

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    inappositeness

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    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 .’