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
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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.
How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds) 2002
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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.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End Romain Rolland 1905
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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."
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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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.
Intimate History 2010
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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.
Intimate History 2010
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But quality as a poem and aptness for a huge public event are two different things.
Also | clusterflock 2009
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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.
Intimate History 2010
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