unsuitableness

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unsuitableness - the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose

inappropriateness, unworthiness - 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"

unfitness - the quality of not being suitable; "the judges agreed on his unfitness for the appointment"

inconvenience - the quality of not being useful or convenient

quality - an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare

suitability, suitableness - the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose; "an important requirement is suitability for long trips"

unsuitableness

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The condition of being improper:

improperness, impropriety, inappropriateness, unbecomingness, unfitness, unseemliness, unsuitability.

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The unsuitableness in point of natural feeling between scenes of mourning and scenes of liveliness did not at all present itself.

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Palmer's acting so simply, with good abilities, and at the strange unsuitableness which often existed between husband and wife, before Sir John's and Mrs.

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"The Defects of an University Education, and its Unsuitableness to a Commercial People" is a little-known work by the Scottish minister William Thom published in 1762, before his compatriot Adam Smith founded modern economics with his "The Wealth of Nations".