unsuitableness

English

Etymology

unsuitable +‎ -ness

Noun

unsuitableness (uncountable)

1. 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.

Synonyms

• unsuitability