unsuitableness
English edit
Etymology edit
unsuitable + -ness
Noun edit
unsuitableness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being unsuited or inappropriate.
- 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Intelligence Office”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
- At the next lifting of the latch there entered a person with his hat awry upon his head, his clothes perversely ill-suited to his form, his eyes staring in directions opposite to their intelligence, and a certain odd unsuitableness pervading his whole figure.