Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being apt, in any sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness.
- noun Disposition of the mind; propensity.
- noun Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility.
- noun Proneness; tendency.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Fitness ;suitableness ;appropriateness ; as, the aptness of things to their end. - noun
Disposition of themind ;propensity ; as, the aptness of men to follow example. - noun Quickness of
apprehension ; readiness in learning;docility ; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others. - noun
Proneness ;tendency ; as, the aptness of iron to rust.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a disposition to behave in a certain way
- noun appropriateness for the occasion
Etymologies
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Examples
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Manning points out that a pattern of cognitive failure, followed by delayed understanding, has a certain aptness here.
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Thus there was a certain aptness in his first publishers 'commission, which was to travel to the industrial north of England and write a report on the effects of unemployment and poverty on the lives of the working class.
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This natural aptness, which is fortified by living together, was in Lionello sharpened and refined by his ever wakeful malevolence.
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We recall the aptness of Prof. Agassiz's remark: _ "There is even a certain antagonism between instinct and intelligence, so that instinct loses its force and peculiar characteristics, whenever intelligence becomes developed."
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Davies punctuates his collage of exquisitely selected archival footage and a few contemporary scenes shot in crisp digital photography with a sound track of extraordinary aptness and variety: Handel, Benny Goodman, Brahms, Salvador Bacarisse, the Spinners, Mahler, Peggy Lee.
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Davies punctuates his collage of exquisitely selected archival footage and a few contemporary scenes shot in crisp digital photography with a sound track of extraordinary aptness and variety: Handel, Benny Goodman, Brahms, Salvador Bacarisse, the Spinners, Mahler, Peggy Lee.
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But quality as a poem and aptness for a huge public event are two different things.
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One pleasure in the rereading of Marx is to savor the trenchancy and aptness of his literary allusions.
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One pleasure in the rereading of Marx is to savor the trenchancy and aptness of his literary allusions.
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Davies punctuates his collage of exquisitely selected archival footage and a few contemporary scenes shot in crisp digital photography with a sound track of extraordinary aptness and variety: Handel, Benny Goodman, Brahms, Salvador Bacarisse, the Spinners, Mahler, Peggy Lee.
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