FITTINGNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The quality of being suitable

Example:

they had to prove their fitness for the position

Synonyms:

fitness; fittingness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("fittingness" is a kind of...):

suitability; suitableness (the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fittingness"):

making; qualification (an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something)

habitability; habitableness (suitability for living in or on)

Derivation:

fitting (being precisely fitting and right)

fitting (in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion)