aptness

English

Etymology

From apt +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæptnəs/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

aptness (countable and uncountable, plural aptnesses)

1. Suitability; the quality of being apt or suitable.
   • 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 128:

     A regular supply of coking slack is sent from Durham to the Scunthorpe area, in view of its special aptness for steelmaking processes, [...].

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

Translations

the quality of being apt or suitable

• Finnish: taipumus (fi)
• French: aptitude (fr) f
• Georgian: შესაბამისობა (šesabamisoba), შესატყვისობა (šesaṭq̇visoba)
• German: Eignung (de) f
• Irish: tráthúlacht f
• Italian: giustezza (it) f
• Latin: calliditās f, commoditās f, dexteritās f
• Portuguese: aptidão (pt) f
• Russian: приго́дность (ru) f (prigódnostʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: freagarrachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вѐрзӣрано̄ст f

  Roman: vèrzīranōst (sh) f

References

• “aptness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Stepans, patness, pantses, pesants, septans