inappropriateness
1. inappropriate conduct • Syn: wrongness • Ant: appropriateness • Derivationally related forms: inappropriate (for: wrongness), inappropriate • Hypernyms: impropriety, improperness 2. the quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting - he retracted nothing that he had said about the inappropriateness of either a corporeal God or a God who is a person - his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness • Syn: unworthiness • Ant: appropriateness • Derivationally related forms: inappropriate • Hypernyms: unsuitability, unsuitableness, ineptness • Hyponyms: inaptness, inappositeness, infelicity
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