aptness

Suitability; the quality of being apt or suitable.

Noun

  1. Suitability; the quality of being apt or suitable.
    • A regular supply of coking slack is sent from Durham to the Scunthorpe area, in view of its special aptness for steelmaking processes, [...]. - 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern...
  2. Disposition of the mind; propensity.
    • the aptness of men to follow example
  3. Speed or readiness in learning; docility.
    • An aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.
  4. Proneness; tendency.
    • the aptness of iron to rust

Origin

Etymology tree English apt Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English aptness From apt + -ness.

Forms

aptnesses